Lintian tag: build-depends-on-build-essential
Type: error
Description (from lintian-explain-tags
)
You depend on the build-essential package, which is only a metapackage
depending on build tools that have to be installed in all build
environments.
Please refer to Relationships between source and binary packages -
Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Depends-Arch, Build-Conflicts,
Build-Conflicts-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Arch (Section 7.7) in the Debian
Policy Manual for details.
Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: fields/package-relations
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