[pmg-devel] [PATCH proxmox-mailgateway] fix empty-binary-package lintian warning

Stoiko Ivanov s.ivanov at proxmox.com
Thu Jan 2 12:51:23 CET 2020


pve-headers is a meta package pulling in the pve-headers package of the latest
kernel's series.

The lintian warning empty-binary-package can be dropped by rephrasing
'virtual package' into 'metapackage' - see [0]

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>

[0] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/empty-binary-package.html

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
While reviewing my patches Dietmar noticed that this warning is still
present (THX! )- the fix is rather straight-forward

 debian/control | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bbd4497..8b6b585 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Package: pve-headers
 Architecture: all
 Depends: pve-headers-5.3,
 Description: Default Proxmox Kernel Headers
- This is a virtual package which will install the kernel headers for the
+ This is a metapackage which will install the kernel headers for the
  current default kernel.
 
 Package: proxmox-mailgateway-container
-- 
2.20.1




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