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Bug#167425: debian-policy: package should not depend on fileutils



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.7.1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

The debian-policy package has this control line:

Depends: fileutils (>=3D 4.0)

In sid, fileutils has been subsumed into the coreutils package.
Since a versioned dependency is not satisfied by a Provides:,
having debian-policy installed forces one to keep the dummy
fileutils package around.

Please change the dependency line to read

Depends: coreutils | fileutils (>=3D 4.0)

This will permit removal of the dummy package without breaking
upgrades.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux egil 2.4.19 #1 Thu Aug 15 11:07:52 PDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=3Den_US, LC_CTYPE=3Den_US

Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         4.5.2-1    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     4.5.2-1    GNU file management utilities

-- no debconf information




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