[pkg-php-pear] Bug#939698: lintian: warning about pkg-php-tools versioned dependency conflicts with cme suggestion

[Antonio Ospite]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 21:57:49 +0200
Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le dim. 8 sept. 2019 à 02:25, David Prévot <david at tilapin.org> a écrit :
> >
> > Le 07/09/2019 à 11:00, Antonio Ospite a écrit :
> > > Package: lintian
> > […]
> > > one of my packages build-depends on pkg-php-tools, and I used to have
> > > that as a versioned dependency, as suggested by this lintian warning:
> > >
> > > W: tweeper source: pear-package-feature-requires-newer-pkg-php-tools (>= 1.7~) for Composer package support
> > >
> > > However I found out that running `cme check dpkg` on said package
> > > suggests to remove the versioned dependency because it has become
> > > unnecessary:
> >
> > It has become unnecessary since at least oldoldstable, so full ack. I’m
> > not the pkg-php-tools maintainer, just a member of the PHP PEAR (and
> > Composer) team taking care of ~100 of PHP library packages.
> 
> Acking too as the main author and maintainer of pkg-php-tools.
> 

Thanks David and Mathieu for the prompt reply.

And thank you Chris for being awesome:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/6cac2636b44942507d5e3fd9085bac40c95f5be8

The warning will be removed from the next lintian release.

Ciao,
   Antonio

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