Re: common Depends and Recommends

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:47:05AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I see some packages have, e.g.
> $ apt-cache show flowscan
> Depends: flow-tools ...
> Recommends: flow-tools
> Maybe some checks should be added against this.

Not to mention

  trofast:~$ apt-cache show libnautilus2-2 | grep Depends
  Depends: [...] libnautilus2-2 (>= 2.4.2) [...]

There are some other examples of this, but I believe the correct thing to do
would be filing a bug against lintian or linda to add such a check. :-)

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