Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Lintian gives me this error:
>
> E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint:
> depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip
> N:
> N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg
> N: without using a versioned depends. In general a package should not
> N: depend on essential packages but if it must do so, the depends should
> N: have a version string.
> N:
> N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 2.3.4 for details.
> N:
>
> Policy section 2.3.4 doesn't exist, and I can't see it in Section 7,
> either. Does this still apply, and if so, where is it in the Policy
> Manual?
>
> I'll remove the dependency next time I upload, but I'd like to know
> where the requirement comes from.
Essential packages are installed anyway, no point in depending on it.
Its a bit like "Depends: foo, foo, foo, foo, foo". Thats legal syntax
but pretty pointless.
MfG
Goswin
