Lintian tag: circular-installation-prerequisite
Type: warning
Description (from lintian-explain-tags
)
The installable declares itself as its own installation prerequisite in
the relevant debian/control stanza.
Current versions of dpkg-gencontrol will silently ignore the prerequisite,
but it may still indicate an oversight. It could be a misspelling or
having cut and pasted an incorrect package name.
Please refer to Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests,
Enhances, Pre-Depends (Section 7.2) in the Debian Policy Manual for
details.
Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/control/prerequisite/circular
Renamed from: package-depends-on-itself
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