Bug#684208: libconfig-model-perl: do not remove versioned depends on essential packages

[Dominique Dumont]

Le Tuesday 7 August 2012 22:03:09, Alessandro Ghedini a écrit :
> when running "cme fix dpkg-control", the versioned (Pre-|Build-)Depends on
> essential packages (e.g. dpkg) gets replaced by non-versioned depends which
> in turn causes the
> depends-on-build-essential-package-without-using-version lintian error
> (see e.g. [0]). IMO Config::Model shouldn't modify dependencies on
> essential packages.

Another possibility is to go forward with the cleanup logic: completely remove 
a dependency on an essential package if the required version is found on all 
supported version.

In the case you mention (Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6) ), rmadison mentions 
that squeeze already provides version 1.15.8.12.

So, I think the pre-dependency is no longer required and should be removed 
entirely.

Thoughts ?

Dominique
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