build-depends-on-build-essential

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.

For more information please consult:

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

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check fields/package-relations.

Visibility: error

The following 1 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 1 times (in any Lintian version).

There were no overrides.

dh-buildinfo

Build-Depends-Indep