Re: new dpkg release, 1.6.5.1, contains 1-line patch for thinko in 1.6.5
Ben Collins wrote:
> It's a lintian bug workaround. It doesn't need to be there. Lintian needs
> to actually check that the package required isn't an essential package.
> Basically it comes the fact that this package uses a symlink to dpkg's doc
> directory. Lintian expects there to be a dep so it knows that the main
> package is installed. Not needed for essential though (unless of course it
> requires a certain version of dpkg, which AFAIK, it doesn't).
You could use a local override instead. (I hope you've reported the bug..)
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