Package: lintian Version: 2.5.11 Severity: normal Hi,
IMHO the following lintian warnings should not be triggered if the binary package in question belongs to the section "metapackages": * empty-binary-package * depends-on-packaging-dev Not as obvious, but nevertheless often happenening for me with metapackages is the following warning: * extended-description-is-probably-too-short I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to totally suppress that warning for packages in section metapackages, but maybe the check's severity should be lowered in that case. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (902, 'testing-updates'), (901, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-7.1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 ii diffstat 1.55-3 ii file 5.11-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9 ii hardening-includes 2.2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6 ii libc-bin 2.13-37 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.9 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii locales 2.13-37 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-16 ii t1utils 1.37-1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.9 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- 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/877gn7pc25....@c-crosser.deuxchevaux.org