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Re: Uploads: msg#00089

Subject: Re: Uploads
Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I'm uploading this one, as there is no real problem with it... But
>> please, consider making a Lintian override, as:

>> $ lintian -i libemail-folder-perl_0.85-1_i386.changes 
>> W: libemail-folder-perl source: build-depends-without-arch-dep perl

> It would be better to fix lintian so that it recognizes this case.
> That's going to be a little tricky as long as the invocation of Perl is
> hidden behind a makefile variable, which also seems fairly pointless
> (does anyone really want to build these packages with some other path to
> Perl).  If that's changed, I think I can fix this by changing the
> lintian regex from '\t\s*perl\s*' to '(\t|\|\|)\s*perl\*'.

> I suppose I could recognize $(PERL) the same as perl for the purposes of
> this check, though.  It's not like anyone is going to use the makefile
> variable for something else.

I've committed a fix to lintian and it will be in the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxx)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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