Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: important Hi,
apparently the new lintian added new wrong tags. E.g.: W: libreoffice-gcj: needless-dependency-on-jre N: N: The package appear to be a Java library and depending on one or more N: JRE/JDK packages. As of 05 Apr 2010, the Java Policy no longer mandates N: that Java libraries depend on Java Runtimes. N: N: If the library package ships executables along with the library, then N: please consider making this an application package or move the binaries N: to a (new) application package. N: N: If there is otherwise a valid reason for this dependency, please N: override the tag. N: N: Refer to N: http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/java-common/news/20100405T221415Z.html N: and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=227587 for details. N: N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible N: W: libreoffice-gcj: needless-dependency-on-jre W: libreoffice-gcj: needless-dependency-on-jre W: libreoffice-gcj: needless-dependency-on-jre W: libreoffice-gcj: needless-dependency-on-jre W: libreoffice-gcj: needless-dependency-on-jre Hmm. A package which sole purpose is to provide jars compiled to jar.sos for use with gcj shouldn't depen on gcj? So that installing it would be a no-op and "thus rendering this package useless". Actually I'd argue that a -gcj package not depending on gcj-jre (or whatever else similar) is RC-buggy (serious). Therefore the severity, I consider this warning harmful, as it surely will cause people to get rid of the dependency. Regards, Rene -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information Grüße/Regards, Rene __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.