[Pkg-cyrus-sasl2-commits] r284 - in /cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian: rules sasl2-bin.dirs sasl2-bin.lintian-overrides

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:34:38AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:29 +0000, roberto at users.alioth.debian.org
> wrote:
> > New Revision: 284
> > 
> > URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/?sc=1&rev=284
> > Log:
> > Another override of a bogus lintian warning
> [...]
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/sasl2-bin.lintian-overrides (added)
> > +++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/sasl2-bin.lintian-overrides Sat Oct 20 19:29:03 2007
> > @@ -1,0 +1,3 @@
> > +# We require versioned depends, but ${shlibs:Depends} also adds one unversioned
> > +sasl2-bin binary: package-has-a-duplicate-relation
> > +
> 
> Should we really override this? It's obviously a spurious warning in
> this particular case, but it is not caused by our packaging but by dpkg.
> Silencing it will mean that duplicate relations that we might cause by
> mistake in the future will go unnoticed. Once dpkg has better handling
> of shlibs:Depends (which I think is actually being implemented), the
> warning will disappear.
> 
> So I propose not to override this warning.

I will make the override more specific, so that it overrides only the
single case.  While working on some other packages, I discovered that
lintian will match as much as you give it.  That will allow us to
override this single case and still see warnings for others which may
crop up.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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