Bug#635647: perl: lintian error:, build-depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version (hurd)

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Wed Jul 27 22:21:08 UTC 2011


Hi

> This lintian error is currently being triggered owing to the following
> construct:
>
> Build-Depends: procps | hurd

You probably wanted:

Build-Depends: procps [!hurd-i386]

Which would do what was intended without B-D'ing on an essential
package.  (you may want hurd-any instead of hurd-i386, if you expect
more hurd ports)

~Niels







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