Package: lintian-brush Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Please drop the init.d-script-needs-depends-on-lsb-base.py fixer. We've seen the "Add missing lsb-base dependency" plague spreading over the archive because lintians previously overzealous warnings. Finally lintian has been toned down to avoid spewing this advice which is ralely correct. There are too many corner cases to be able to do this correctly that you're likely to spend eternity trying to fix up your fixer. We'll then need another eternity to get rid of all the (incorrect) lsb-base dependencies again. I noticed you where doing this because I got CC of https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/merge_requests/4 which is clearly incorrect. The dbus package ships a native systemd service which shadows the init script and thus there's no need for a lsb-base dependency. (If you want me to guess the problem I would assume your fixer looks at the source package and if it finds debian/*.init it assumes there must also be a matching debian/*.service but forgets that the service might actually be installed by upstreams build system.) If you want another example of a corner case you could look at the util-linux package. It ships an init script. It doesn't ship a masking systemd service! Shouldn't it have a lsb-base dependency? No. The init script is masked because another package provides the masking symlink. You'll never find all corner cases and your fixer is likely to do more harm than good. Please instead consider writing a fixer that *removes* lsb-base dependencies so we can get rid of all the previously introduced incorrect dependencies. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
