Bug#274286: lintian: downgrade package-has-a-duplicate-relation

[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: normal

Please downgrade package-has-a-duplicate-relation to a warning.  Dependencies
may be added as a result of automatic variable substitutions such as
${misc:Depends} and ${shlibs:Depends}, and they may even be platform-dependent,
so it's not possible for the maintainer to manually sort them out beforehand.
Still, it's reasonable to point out possible honest mistakes in this area, but
if it were a warning, it would make it clearer that it is OK to override it.

Perhaps the associated informational message could be amended to say that in
certain cases duplicate relations may be OK.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-586tsc
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-4     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                      1.34-1     produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                          4.10-3     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                       0.14.1-5   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  man-db                        2.4.2-19   The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]     5.8.4-2.3  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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