Bug#809383: mention explicitly double listing: Depends, Recommends, Suggests

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Could you explain why you think this is needed, please?  What problems
> could be caused by a package being listed in more than one field, and
> what problems could be caused by forbidding that?

Particularly since this won't even appear in the binary package because
dpkg-gencontrol will filter out the duplicate dependency.

    Thus Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends and Suggests are simplified in
    this order by removing dependencies which are known to be true
    according to the stronger dependencies already parsed.  It will also
    remove any self-dependency (in fact it will remove any dependency
    which evaluates to true given the current version of the package as
    installed).

So this is purely a nit in the debian/control file in the source package.
I think this is Lintian's role, not Policy.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>