Hello Russ, Russ Allbery schrieb:
Right, the problem is that Lintian checks a package at a time, so while it's checking foo, it has no access to foo-data. Lintian is designed to check each package in isolation. It's difficult to do more than that and still support things like lintian.d.o.
OK, I see...
That being said, there is a possible hack that we can apply here that may fix the common case of checking a *.changes file for a set of related packages and on lintian.d.o. See the discussion in #456657 for more details.
Well, I have no clue about lintian internals, but isn't the check for the dangling /usr/lib/libfoo.so -> /usr/lib/libfoo.so.$SONAME in libfoo-dev packages a similar exception? At least it throws no error if /usr/lib/libfoo.so.$SONAME does exist in the libfoo$SONAME package and libfoo-dev depends on it.
This is why binary-without-manpage explicitly says to add an override for this case, though.
The binary-without-manpage warning is only the simplest one that crossed my mind. A more complicated example is realted to debian/foo.menu files.
Imagine the same situation than before: A binary /usr/bin/foo in the foo package and all arch-indep content of /usr/share in the foo-data package. foo denepds on foo-data. Now I add a debian/foo.menu file which contains the lines 'command="/usr/bin/foo"' and 'icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/foo.xpm"'. Of course, since the file /usr/share/pixmaps/foo.xpm cannot be found in the foo package, lintian throws the menu-icon-missing warning. This will be another lintian overrides. :/ On the other hand, if I move the menu file to debian/foo-data.menu, the menu-icon-missing warning will be gone, but the menu-command-not-in-package warning will appear instead, since /usr/bin/foo is not part of foo-data. Even worse, I cannot make foo-data depend on foo, because I have to avoid circular dependencies. So all I can do is make foo-data recommend foo, but then it is still possible that a user mistakenly install foo-data without foo and ends up with a dead menu entry.
Please, I really don't want to add a bunch of lintian overrides for reasonably packaged split-up packages. ;)
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