The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 3eb5fc7bd03a58e307525e19f054aaeab49d2417 Author: gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Date: Thu Jul 5 15:10:50 2012 -0600
c/fields: Add info about how to fix perl-dependency problems Point to cme as a means of fixing versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl and package-superseded-by-perl. diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc index 002a058..94d1fde 100644 --- a/checks/fields.desc +++ b/checks/fields.desc @@ -941,6 +941,9 @@ Info: This package declares an unnecessary versioned dependency should come second. . Example: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.210000) | perl (>= 5.14) + . + Running <tt>cme fix dpkg -from control -filter Depends</tt> should be able + to update these dependencies. Ref: policy 7.5 Tag: package-superseded-by-perl @@ -962,6 +965,9 @@ Info: This package is also provided by one of the Perl core packages versioned dependency a secondary one. . Example: perl (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26) + . + Running <tt>cme fix dpkg -from control -filter Depends</tt> should be able + to update these dependencies. Ref: policy 7.5 Tag: vcs-field-uses-not-recommended-uri-format diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 4e3f2b9..edf4994 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ lintian (2.5.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * checks/deb-format{,.desc}: + [NT] Retire data.tar.xz tag. (Closes: #680391) + * checks/fields.desc: + + [NT] Mention that cme can automate fixing some perl + related tags. Thanks to gregor herrmann for the report + and patch. (Closes: #680446) -- Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:21:56 +0200 -- Debian package checker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1soyqy-0003vy...@vasks.debian.org