Dear Lintian Maintainers, Recent versions of lintain have started showing an error for a package I maintain, gexiv2. I don't think this can be fixed in gexiv2 packaging so I'm asking if an override is appropriate.
One of the binary packages gexiv2 builds is gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10. This contains gobject-introspection files (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection) which allow languages like Python and JavaScript to use the gexiv2 library. It also ships override files for Python 2 and 3 to make the API easier to work with in Python. It contains the following files: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0/GExiv2-0.10.typelib Lintian shows the following error for this package: E: gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10: python-package-missing-depends-on-python N: N: The specified Python package ships Python modules under /usr/lib but N: does not specify any dependency on Python. N: N: This is likely an omission, the result of a typo in debian/control or N: the file should not be installed. N: N: Severity: serious, Certainty: certain N: N: Check: python, Type: source, binary I don't know of a way to fix this error. The package does not declare a dependency on Python because it's possible to use this package from JavaScript or other languages through just the .typelib file. It's possible to use this package through Python 2 or 3 and the Debian archive contains both Python 2 and 3 programs which use this package. There are a few other packages which show this same lintian error for the same reason: gir1.2-accounts-1.0 gir1.2-dee-1.0 gir1.2-gom-1.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0
