Bug#582511: lintian: If dh_pysupport is used, require Depends package on python-support

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, 2010-05-21, 15:28:
> With debian/rules file like this:
>
>    %
> 	    dh $@
>
> The calls flow through "dh_pysupport". Unfortunately that does nothing
> if debian/control::Depands lists package python-support
>
> SUGGESTION
>
> If there are any *.py files in the package please add some message about
> possible missing python-support in Depends.

The heuristics you propose is not reliable. I can think of many 
situations where a source package contains *.py but build-dependency on 
python-support is not needed.

It would make more sense to warn if debian/control contains 
${python:Depends} or ${python:Provides} or ${python:Versions}, but the 
package neither build-depends on python-support nor on python-central.

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Jakub Wilk

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