Bug#733704: check for unnecessary automake dependency
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.20
Severity: wishlist
Going through the latest automake transition made me realize that many
packages have an unnecessary build dependency on automake. They don't invoke
it directly or use it through dh-autoreconf.
A test would look something like:
- If there's a build dependency on any automake package fail unless:
- it also build depends on dh-autoreconf or
- it invokes automake or autoreconf in the debian/rules
I will probably take a stab at implementing this but any thoughts on how or
any other suggestions on other things to check would be appreciated.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24-2
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.57-1
ii file 1:5.14-2
ii gettext 0.18.3.1-2
ii hardening-includes 2.5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-7
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.36-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.2-3
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.1-5
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.21-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b3
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.1-5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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