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

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson writes ("Bug#809383: mention explicitly double listing: Depends, Recommends, Suggests"):
> [Sean Whitton:]
> > 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?
> 
> Please have your policy say if it is OK to drive on the right side of
> the road or the left side of the road or both or neither or that it
> hasn't been decided yet or something, anything. Thanks.

That doesn't seem to be an answer to Sean's question.  Why do you want
the question of redundant dependencies dealt with in policy ?  What
bad things are happening, or might be likely to happen, because it is
not mentioned ?

Ian.

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