Read the dependencies from Cask/pkg file

[Fuco1]

I'm not sure if this is already a feature but probably not because I can not get it working.

I have this pkg file for smartparens

(define-package "smartparens" "1.11.0" "Automatic insertion, wrapping and paredit-like navigation with user defined pairs."
  '((emacs "24.3")
    (dash "2.13.0")
    (cl-lib "0.3")))

it has the emacs dependency but package-lint still complains that

1:111: warning: You should depend on (emacs "24") if you need lexical-binding.
53:12: error: You should depend on (emacs "24.4") if you need `subr-x'.
137:9: error: You should depend on (emacs "24.3") if you need `read-only-mode'.
....
9051:13: error: You should depend on (emacs "24.3") if you need `user-error'.
9398:19: error: You should depend on (emacs "24.4") if you need `add-face-text-property'.

How should I fix this? Do we need to teach package-lint to look for pkg files?

[purcell]

Yep, we could, but then there's also an open question about multi-file packages. It's good that flycheck now supports reporting errors found in other files - that could be relevant here.