Lintian tag: depends-on-python-minimal

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The python-minimal package (and versioned variants thereof) exists only to
possibly become an Essential package. Depending on it is always an error
since it should never be installed without python. If it becomes
Essential, there is no need to depend on it, and until then, packages that
require Python must depend on python.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: fields/package-relations

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
python3.12 3.12.9-1 python3.12/3.12.9-1 overridden depends-on-python-minimal 9 Depends
python3.12 3.12.9-1 python3.12-nopie/3.12.9-1 overridden depends-on-python-minimal 9 Depends
python3.13 3.13.2-2 python3.13/3.13.2-2 overridden depends-on-python-minimal 9 Depends
python3.13 3.13.2-2 python3.13-nopie/3.13.2-2 overridden depends-on-python-minimal 9 Depends
python3-defaults 3.13.2-2 python3/3.13.2-2 overridden depends-on-python-minimal 9 Pre-Depends