[Dh-make-php-devel] [Fwd: Re: Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php]

[Uwe Steinmann]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:10:05PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
> Uwe,
> 
> Following is a brief correspondence which has led me to change
> pear.template/control to depend on cdbs. Any thoughts on the matter?
Strange. I don't see why this is needed, though it's not really 
a problem to add cdbs.

  Uwe

> 
> Charles
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> -----
> 
> From: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php
> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:51:25 -0700
> To: Charles Fry <cfry at debian.org>
> Cc: 376920 at bugs.debian.org
> Organization: The Eyrie
> 
> Charles Fry <cfry at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 1.23.22
> > Severity: normal
> 
> > I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing
> > a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which
> > depends on cdbs.
> 
> It's not clear to me that this is a bug in lintian.  I don't see anything
> in the documentation of dh-make-php that guarantees that it will always
> depend on cdbs in the future, so if your package is directly using cdbs
> features, I think you should add an explicit cdbs dependency.
> 
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> 
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