What should be in the "misc-depends:" in a control file?

Lintian gives error without "misc-depends:" in the control file.

 W: brightness-controller source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends brightness-controller

What should be supposed to be in it? Every else works fine without it.

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"misc-depends" is not a field in the debian/control file, but infact a variable that dh_gencontrol will substitute during the build of the binary package. As the New Maintainer's Guide says:

Some debhelper commands may cause the generated package to depend on some additional packages. All such commands generate a list of required packages for each binary package. This list is used for substituting ${misc:Depends}.

In practice, it looks like:

Depends: libfoobar, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}

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