Bug#637793: lintian: [PATCH] Improve description of versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:40:31AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:02:03AM +0000, pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:

> > Commit message:
> > 
> >     move perl 5.14 as a second alternative dependency on libextutils-parsexs-perl 2.210000
> >     
> >     Closes: #637033 -- FTBFS: unfullfillable first alternative in build-depends
> 
> Damyan, thanks for fixing this. I think I was distracted by a related
> lintian warning, which specifically suggests that perl comes first,
> forgetting the way the autobuilders interpret this.
> 
> I'll make a note to look at whether the lintian message should be
> altered.

Patch attached.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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