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Bug#838997: lintian: checks/init.d: Check for initscripts that source /lib/lsb/init-functions without declaring the corresponding dependency on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6).



Le vendredi, 14 octobre 2016, 22.57:13 h CEST Jakub Wilk a écrit :
> * Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org>, 2016-10-11, 08:44:
> >We put 3.0-6, then we have to update to 3.2-14 for status_proc. Then we
> >discover there may be people with backports so we update to 3.2-14~. This
> >makes a lot of people in Debian work for people that do not exist (those
> >with distributions older than oldoldstable that install packages from
> >unstable
> It's worse than that:
> 
> The last release that didn't have lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) is lenny, i.e.
> (old)^3stable. The last release that didn't have lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) is
> sarge, i.e. (old)^5stable.
> 
> Lintian has no business being THAT pedantic, especially not in a tag with
> severity:important. I will remove the version constraint.

Oh, indeed. Thanks for checking !

-- 
Cheers,
    OdyX


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