Bug#582769: lintian: issue error if both cdbs and debhelper is listed
severity 582769 wishlist
thanks
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.4.1
> Severity: normal
Requests for new Lintian checks are always wishlist. False negatives are
nearly always wishlist.
> $ grep Depends: debian/control
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.1), cdbs
> in this case the CDBS package was converted into debhelper dh(1) format,
> but the cdbs dependency was not reoved from the Build-Depends.
> Perhaps "multiple packaging systems" error could be issued to notice this?
It's a bit more complicated than that, since it's perfectly legitimate to
invoke a dh script directly inside a supplemental CDBS rule, in which case
the package should also build-depend on debhelper directly.
However, we should be able to detect whether CDBS is in use by looking for
includes in debian/rules that reference CDBS and warn that the CDBS
dependency may be unused in that case.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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