[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1135256: Bug#1135256: liborthancframework1: should only have a Depends on the replacing package
Sébastien Jodogne
s.jodogne at orthanc-labs.com
Mon May 4 15:31:17 BST 2026
Hi,
On 5/4/26 11:43, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 5/4/26 09:31, Sébastien Jodogne wrote:
>> However, I get the following lintian warning:
>>
>> W: orthanc source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends liborthancframework1
>>
>> From what I understand, I should thus keep the "Depends:
>> ${misc:Depends}", even if it is a transitional package (and thus
>> ${misc:Depends} will probably expand to nothing):
>>
>> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-but-no-misc-depends.html
>>
>> Please could you hint whether I should keep ${misc:Depends} or add a
>> lintian-overrides for this specific warning on the transitional package?
>
>
> I think you know better what you are doing that lintian. Maybe submit a
> bug to lintian to not raise this warning for packages with
> "Transitional" in the description if that bug report doesn't exist
> already. I'm quite sure that lintian is wrong here, so an override is
> perfectly fine.
Fine, thanks for the confirmation, I've just added the lintian override:
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/orthanc/-/commit/33383706f2d8027872f69d8793704f6152e3f9d2
Sébastien-
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