Bug#648350: lintian: please check for XZ compression w/o pre-depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> This sounds like a serious/certain (E) tag on an Ubuntu, but what about
> Debian?  Do we ignore the tag, since it is not an issue or do we emit
> the tag anyway?  In the latter case, what severity do we give it?

That's a fair question.  Within Debian proper, I'd like to see the tag
wind up as a warning (severity normal or minor, AFAICT), to raise
awareness that Ubuntu won't be able to import the package as is; AIUI,
Debian generally tries to discourage that sort of gratuitous formal
incompatibity.

Thanks!

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