Re: Dependency logic

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:46:03AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> In a post to this list about a year ago, someone suggested that complex 
> dependencies such as "(A & B) | C" be handled with: "A | C, B | C".  Now 
> this generates a lintian error:
> 
> E: petsc2.1.1-dev: package-has-a-duplicate-relation blas-dev | 
> atlas2-base-dev, lapack-dev | atlas2-base-dev
> N:
> N:   The package seems to declare a relation on another package which is
> N:   already implied by other relations it declares, and is therefore
> N:   redundant. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools
> 
> How else am I supposed to construct this dependency?

That seems to be a bug in lintian (see also #122742). I wrote the
current iteration of that check, so I'll take a look at it. In the
meantime I think you can just ignore it.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]