Doubt about package-has-a-duplicate-relation
I have a doubt about the lintian check package-has-a-duplicate-relation.
Dependencies may be added as a result of automatic variable
substitutions such as ${misc:Depends} and ${shlibs:Depends}, and they
may even be platform-dependent, so it's not possible for the maintainer
to manually sort them out beforehand. I think the check should at
least be downgraded to a warning so maintainers can feel better about
overriding it, and the "some tools" that are claimed to break as a
result of these dependency specifications should simply be fixed.
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