[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/5] Debian: ${source:Version} dependency in python-openvswitch
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Wed Jun 15 23:16:24 UTC 2011
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:01:21AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:59:25AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > As reported by lintian -i:
> >
> > E: openvswitch source: not-binnmuable-all-depends-any python-openvswitch -> openvswitch-switch
> > N:
> > N: The package is not safely binNMUable because an arch:all package depends
> > N: on an arch:any package with a strict (= ${Source-Version}), or similar,
> > N: relationship.
> > N:
> > N: It is not possible for arch:all packages to depend so strictly on
> > N: arch:any packages while having the package binNMUable, so please use one
> > N: of these, whichever is more appropriate:
> > N:
> > N: Depends: arch_any (>= ${source:Version})
> > N: Depends: arch_any (>= ${source:Version}),
> > N: arch_any (<< ${source:Version}.1~)
> > N:
> > N: Severity: important, Certainty: certain
>
> This makes sense but we've recently had some need to use the OVS
> Python code without the OVS switch, so on master there's no dependency
> from python-openvswitch to openvswitch-switch at all.
>
> I'll make one change or the other on branch-1.1.
Thanks, deleting the dependency is fine by me.
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