Lintian tag: transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The package appears to be a transitional package, but it is not priority
optional and in the oldlibs section.

Using oldlibs/optional assists package managers in handling the transition
package correctly.

Please refer to Bug#645438 and Make transition packages deborphan
compliant (Section 6.8.7) in the Debian Developer's Reference for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: fields/section
Renamed from: transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-extra
transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-optional

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
bbdb 3.0.3 bbdb/3.0.3 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 mail/optional
gmerlin-encoders 2.0.0~svngit.20231213.4d5872f-1~exp1 gmerlin-encoders-extra/2.0.0~svngit.20231213.4d5872f-1~exp1+b1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 9 libs/optional
golang-github-jonboulle-clockwork 0.1.0-4.1 golang-clockwork-dev/0.1.0-4.1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 oldlibs/extra
libnvme 1.13-1 python3-nvme/1.13-1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 oldlibs/extra
libpcap 1.10.5-2 libpcap-dev/1.10.5-2 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 9 libdevel/optional
netdata 1.47.5-1 netdata-core-no-sse/1.47.5-1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 net/optional
netdata 2.0.3+dfsg-1 netdata-core/2.0.3+dfsg-1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 net/optional
netdata 2.0.3+dfsg-1 netdata-core-no-sse/2.0.3+dfsg-1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 net/optional
scribus-ng 1.5.5+dfsg-3+transition scribus-ng/1.5.5+dfsg-3+transition warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 8 graphics/optional
scribus-ng 1.5.5+dfsg-3+transition scribus-ng/1.5.5+dfsg-3+transition+b1 warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 graphics/optional
scribus-ng 1.5.5+dfsg-3+transition scribus-ng-data/1.5.5+dfsg-3+transition warning transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional 1 graphics/optional