Lintian tag: redundant-installation-prerequisite

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

A stronger field for prerequisites in the debian/control file satisfies
the named condition stated in a weaker field.

For example, you would see this tag when the Depends field already
requires that a package which is also listed in Recommends or Suggests is
installed. Or, a package could be listed in both Recommends as well as
Suggests.

Current versions of dpkg-gencontrol will silently ignore the weaker field,
but like anything unexpected it could indicate another oversight, such as
a misspelling or having forgotten to remove the stronger prereguisite when
the intent was to move it to a weaker field.

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/redundant
Renamed from: stronger-dependency-implies-weaker

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