Bug#234978: Check for common Depends and Recommends
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:03:16PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> 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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