Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm preparing a package which uses debconf. When I run lintian on the
> package the following error is reported:

> E: arno-iptables-firewall: settitle-requires-versioned-depends config
> N:
> N:   Debconf only supports the SETTITLE command as of version 1.3.22. To
> N:   ensure upgrades work correctly, packages that use this new command
> N:   should declare a dependency on that version of debconf.
> N:

> The strange thing is, that I have the following line in the control file:

> Depends: ${misc:Depends}, iptables (>=1.2.11), gawk, debconf (>=1.3.22) | 
> debconf-2.0

> There is clearly a versioned debconf dependency. The above line is
> expanded to the following when building the package.

> Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, iptables (>= 1.2.11), gawk, debconf 
> (>= 1.3.22) | debconf-2.0

> Does anybody know where the problem is?

I wonder if lintian is getting confused by the dependency added by
${misc:Depends} and missing the second dependency that is tighter.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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