Bug#776068: lintian: please add more checks for missing dependencies
On 2015-01-23 16:40, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:05:27 +0100 Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> wrote:
>> one can notice a large number of packages which probably (by their name)
>> need an interpreter but do not depend on one:
>
> Niels Thykier noticed that my numbers include many .*-doc and .*-data packages.
> Here an updated list that does not:
>
> - python-.*: 18
> - python3-.*: 12
> - jenkins-.*: 8
> - gosa-plugin-.*:13
> - cl-.*: 37
> - .*-perl: 3
> - ruby-.*: 3
> - xul-ext-.*: 7
> - lua-.*: 9
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers, josch
>
There are also some -common and -dev packages, which might not require
the interpreter (e.g. for -dev, you probably want something like
python-dev rather than python). To avoid too many false positives, we
should probably at least start with ignoring (in the general case):
^.*-(?:data|dev|doc|common)$
~Niels
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