Bug#1717: gopherd recommends freeWAIS - nonexistent package
Package: gopherd
Version: 2.1.1-2
The `gopherd' package says:
recommends: freeWAIS
However, there is no package `freeWAIS', nor does any package Provide
`freeWAIS'. (Packages-Master of the 21st of October, 00:49GMT.)
This means that when you select gopherd in dselect you get a
conflict/dependency resolution screen which is supposed to warn you
about this potential problem (remember that a Recommends line is quite
a strong recommendation).
(Currently - dpkg 1.0.5 - the conflict/dependency resolution screen is
less informative than it might be; I intend to improve this, but the
problem will not go away until the bad recommendation is fixed.)
Ian.
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