Bug#879953: lintian: script-needs-depends-on-sensible-utils should not be emitted if there is already a Recommends on sensible-utils

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi Mattia,

Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 05:16:36PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > (Yes, I'm aware that devscripts just bumped sensible-utils from
> > Recommends to Depends, probably because of this IMHO too strict check by
> > lintian.)
> 
> Yes, this tag is what made me bump it from recommends to depends in
> devscripts,

Thanks for confirming of my suspicion. :-)

> but I consider sensible-utils important nonetheless (I even
> use them in some personal scripts).
[...]
> It might be just me that I'm an happy user of sensible-utils and would
> rather see it a more widespread usage :)

I agree totally, but that's neither the point of Dependencies or
Recommends nor of lintian warnings. ;-)

> Also (haven't checked) but nmudiff doesn't do any prior check on the
> availability of sensible-editor before calling it, and the failure
> message would be quite unhelpful.

Yes, addining a check is what I'm thinking about for dhomepage, too.

		Regards, Axel
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