Debian Bug report logs - #398658
lintian: Detect unconditional use of non-essential packages during purge

Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fix blocked by 629247: lintian: Please use a decent shell script parser

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Hey,

Perhaps we should mark this as wontfix and leave this to piuparts?  I
admit that Lintian is probably more used than piuparts by developers
(and it would catch this issue pre-upload).  Nevertheless we have not
done anything about this for 4+ years and alternatives exists.

~Niels





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