preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends lintian check

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:14:41AM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> So, apparently, this was removed in lintian 2.5.11 since Debian
> oldstable has a high enough dpkg (1.15.8.13), but lucid doesn't
> (1.15.5.6ubuntu4.5).  Should we add this check back to lintian in Ubuntu
> until lucid is EOL (we should be able to do this in Debian since there
> are lintian profiles now, so no diff should be required).  I'd be happy
> to write a patch if this is desired.

No, it's only needed for upgrades from lucid to precise.  Since we don't
support direct upgrades from lucid to anything newer, I don't think it's
worth bothering even with a profile.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]