I am unable to determine why I am getting this message from lintian. Help? My control file seems normal to me with this header. I am attempting to build a meta package that contains nothing but depends so that I can pull in various packages easily by installing my metapackage.
I have reduced the problem to this small example which illustrates the problem I am having. Package: myserverbundle Architecture: all Section: admin Priority: optional Depends: rsh-client Description: My server package bundle Running lintian on the resulting .deb results in the following output. I know this is coming from the fields module of lintian. But I got lost in the perl. W: myserverbundle: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client Why does it think rsh-client is a virtual package? This happens even with the sid version 1.22.6 lintian. Other dependencies that I have listed do not trigger this behavior. But either rsh-client or rsh-server do and so this seems somehow specific to those packages. Thanks Bob
