[csw-maintainers] checkpkg now allows *-devel packages to depend on any packages

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Thu Nov 4 10:34:25 CET 2010


The surplus-dependency error tag used to be one of the most common
false positives in checkpg.  I've just committed a code change, which
allows *-devel packages to depend on any packages.  The detection is
based on pkgname (not the catalogname), and the regex used is:

CSW[a-z\-]+dev(el)?

This matches CSWfoo-devel, CSWfoo-dev, CSWfoodevel and CSWfoodev.

After you update your svn clients, you'll see messages about unused
overrides.  You will also no longer see the surplus-dependency errors
in new *-devel packages.

Maciej


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