Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage

2009-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:56:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Lintian doesn't think that either are metapackages because they are >> both arch-dependent and it usually doesn't make any sense for a >> metapackage to be arch-dependent. Why *are* they arch-dependent?

Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage

2009-08-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:56:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian writes: > > both education-desktop-other and ltsp-client are metapackages, or nearly > > so, containing only standard /usr/share/doc files, lintian overrides ...snip... > > how does lintian determine if a package

Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage

2009-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > thanks for maintaining lintian. > for at least two packages i've worked on, it seems that they get > "depends-on-metapackage" lintian errors: > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-metapackage.html > "Packages that are not themselves metapackages must not dep

Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage

2009-08-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: wishlist thanks for maintaining lintian. for at least two packages i've worked on, it seems that they get "depends-on-metapackage" lintian errors: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-metapackage.html "Packages that are not themselves metapackag