Sean Whitton <[email protected]> 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 ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
