Bug#944551: lintian: missing-python-build-dependency false positive

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> >I assume it works fine with that "minimal" version in your package,
> >but I'm a little hesitant to enlarge the allowed packages to include
> >these wwithout knowing more about the subtle differences between them
> >all...
> 
> I must confess I don’t know either… the script I wrote that’s used
> during the build process works with -minimal so I used that to keep
> the B-D low, but I’m nowhere near skilled in the Python ecosystem
> to answer that.

Okay, marking as moreinfo until someone who can judge this better than
us two can chime in.

(Just to clarify I would agree that this a false-positive from your
point of view and we are merely working out a correct and safe fix.
Also that Lintian should, in theory, be detecting the use of Python in
the other package.)


Regards,

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