On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Lintian just started erroring on 'depends-on-obsolete-package > lsb-base' on many of my packages yesterday.
It's a very low priority cleanup; the Depends is redundant but harmless. > There are no new uploads of lsb-base recently Relevant changes are from September. The lsb-base package is empty, and would have been gone completely if debootstrap understood Provides. > and I did not find any news about this topic. The > Lintian page https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-obsolete-package > is only about the error in general, not any mention of lsb-base > specific changes. The description of "$PACKAGE1 => $PACKAGE2" are clear enough, of "$PACKAGE => nothing" a bit less, indeed. You can just drop the dependency. > Does somebody know what is going on? > > Example: > E: mariadb-server: depends-on-obsolete-package Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) The severity of this warning is grossly overstated. It shouldn't be an "error" but a "mild warning to fix if you're bored". Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Let's make a Debian conference in Yalta, Ukraine. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
