Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-29 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery wrote: Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that for 99.9% of packages it would constitute a bug to Depends: x-window-system-core, you could add it and just let metapackages add lintian overrides. That would catch the showeq case. On the other hand, that seems highly

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debtags might help here: Package: x-window-system [...] Tag: interface::x11, role::aux:metapackage, special::meta, x11::terminal, x11::window-manager, x11::xserver Package: x-window-system-core [...] Tag: interface::x11, role::aux:metapackage,

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that for 99.9% of packages it would constitute a bug to Depends: x-window-system-core, you could add it and just let metapackages add lintian overrides. That would catch the showeq case. On the other hand, that seems highly suboptimal. In the

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Hi Josh, I was looking at your lintian patch in #347169 with an eye to applying it, but as near as I can tell, it's now unnecessary. Since you sent the patch, xlibs-dev has been included in obsolete packages, so that part is already done. The remaining section diagnoses dependencies on

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery wrote: I was looking at your lintian patch in #347169 with an eye to applying it, but as near as I can tell, it's now unnecessary. Since you sent the patch, xlibs-dev has been included in obsolete packages, so that part is already done. The remaining section diagnoses

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like at least one package (showeq) depends on x-window-system-core (also not for use in Depends), The description of x-window-system-core explicitly says it's for use in Depends, actually. It does say that it's for use in Depends for

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery wrote: Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like at least one package (showeq) depends on x-window-system-core (also not for use in Depends), The description of x-window-system-core explicitly says it's for use in Depends, actually. It does say that it's for use in