Re: Policy query

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net> writes:

> Lintian gives me this error:
> 
> E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip
> N:
> N:   The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg
> N:   without using a versioned depends. In general a package should not
> N:   depend on essential packages but if it must do so, the depends should
> N:   have a version string.
> N:
> N:   Refer to Policy Manual, section 2.3.4 for details.
> N:
> 
> Policy section 2.3.4 doesn't exist, and I can't see it in Section 7,
> either.  Does this still apply, and if so, where is it in the Policy
> Manual?
> 
> I'll remove the dependency next time I upload, but I'd like to know
> where the requirement comes from.

Essential packages are installed anyway, no point in depending on it.
Its a bit like "Depends: foo, foo, foo, foo, foo". Thats legal syntax
but pretty pointless.

MfG
        Goswin