auto dependency

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

Hi all,

Just wandering about the frozen distribution, I looked at
plotutils_2.1.6-1.deb.  With dpkg --info, I get

 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 797944 bytes: control archive= 686 bytes.
     517 bytes,    13 lines      control              
     250 bytes,    14 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
      58 bytes,     4 lines   *  prerm                #!/bin/sh
      33 bytes,     1 lines      shlibs               
 Package: plotutils
 Version: 2.1.6-1
 Architecture: i386
 Depends: libc6, libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), plotutils (>= 2.1.4-1), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The package depends on an earlier version of itself.  Is this aceptable
`package idiom', or a bug?

Eric

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