Ben Collins wrote: > It's a lintian bug workaround. It doesn't need to be there. Lintian needs > to actually check that the package required isn't an essential package. > Basically it comes the fact that this package uses a symlink to dpkg's doc > directory. Lintian expects there to be a dep so it knows that the main > package is installed. Not needed for essential though (unless of course it > requires a certain version of dpkg, which AFAIK, it doesn't).
You could use a local override instead. (I hope you've reported the bug..) -- see shy jo
