Bug#235356: check common Depends and Recommends
Package: lintian
Version: unknown
Severity: wishlist
Some checks can be added as mentioned below:
From: sgunderson@bigfoot.com
Subject: Re: common Depends and Recommends
linux.debian.devel 2004-02-26
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 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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