Currently, the `fortunes' package depends on either `fortune-mod' or `fortune-min': $ apt-cache show fortunes Package: fortunes ... Source: fortune-mod Version: 1:1.99.1-3 Provides: fortune-cookie-db Depends: fortune-mod (>= 9708-12), fortunes-min ... Does it make sense, provided that the fortune files may as well be read by M-x fortune in Emacs, or even by a plain `less'? And more generally, does it make sense for a pure-data package to have non-empty Depends:?