Package: sensible-utils
Version: 0.0.9
Severity: normal

Good evening,

select-editor uses gettext (from gettext-base) but sensible-utils does
not depend on gettext-base. This is probably because it is Priority:
standard, but this is not the same as essential: yes (and such packages
are skipped in some situations e.g. debootstrap).

There is an additional complication: sensible-utils is Priority:
required and so policy prevents you from simply depending on
gettext-base. Either gettext-base needs bumping up to required,
or sensible-utils down to standard.

Reading the descriptions of the priority levels, I can't see why
sensible-utils is required any way. I think downgrading it to required
is the right thing to do, but I'd appreciate some feedback on that. (I
guess that would mean I didn't get sensible-utils included in a
debootstrapped install either, for example? not clear from
debootstrap manpage))

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- no debconf information

-- 
Thanks,
 
Jonathan Dowland, Head of Support, School of Computing Science
Support Team blog: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/compscisupport/


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