Config::Model and cme to help debian transitions
Hello
As maintainer of libwx-scintilla-perl, I had to update the package to update a dependency declation to close bug #662427. The dependency was good enough for the package to work but it blocked the linpng15 transition.
This is yet another detail to remember when updating package: whether the dependencies are impacted by a transition. As I’m really bad at remembering such details, I’ve added the relevant check in the dpkg control source model used by cme.
Now running ‘cme check dpkg’ will warn you if a dependency impacts a transition. And ‘cme fix dpkg’ will fix you dependency list as resquested by a transition. Well, that holds true for the transition I’m aware of. Feel free to contact me if more transition checks are needed.
For those who are curious (or want to send me a patch for another transition), here’s the actual implementation of these new checks.
All the best
Dominique Dumont's Blog 
“New packages should build-depend on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2)” — err, what? Maybe you meant libtiff4-dev? That’d be still wrong though.
Err.. According to the libtiff4 transition page, this dependency is correct. The only hitch is that it should be a runtime dependency, not a build time dependency. My bad. I’ll have to move this warning from Source.pl to Binary.pl. Thanks for the heads-up 🙂