Bug#635647: perl: lintian error:, build-depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version (hurd)

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Wed Jul 27 23:00:32 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:21:08AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > This lintian error is currently being triggered owing to the following
> > construct:
> >
> > Build-Depends: procps | hurd
> 
> You probably wanted:
> 
> Build-Depends: procps [!hurd-i386]
> 
> Which would do what was intended without B-D'ing on an essential
> package.  (you may want hurd-any instead of hurd-i386, if you expect
> more hurd ports)

Aha - thank you. Obvious when pointed out, especially since we're
already using that construct...

Cheers,
Dominic.

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