Bug#409136: lintian: Add check for unneeded 'debian/control::Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}'

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.27
Severity: wishlist


In the case of single package, the following entry in debian/control in 
unnecessary:

  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
	   ==================

If possible, lintian could warn about unneeded entry. 

I've used following makefile target to check these mistakes. Perhpas
it can give ideas how to implement something similar to lintian.

lintian-control:
	# Check control file errors
	@file=debian/control; \
	if grep --with-filename "shlibs:Depends" $$file; then \
	  list=$$(find . -name "*.la" -o -name "*.a" > /dev/null); \
	  if [ ! "$$list" ]; then \
	    echo "[ERROR] No libraries found in package"; \
	  fi; \
	fi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.17-3            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.43-2            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.13.25           package building tools for Debian
ii  file                   4.17-5            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.16.1-1          GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1             parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                 2.4.3-5           The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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