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
Affected packages
| source |
version |
binary |
level |
tag |
count |
information |
| boost1.92 |
1.92.0-3 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for libboost1.92-dev) Suggests -> Depends libboost-regex1.92-dev [debian/control:25] |
| ceph |
20.2.4+ds-1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for ceph-mds) Recommends -> Depends ceph-common [debian/control:339] |
| cups |
2.4.18-1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | foomatic-filters [debian/control:65] |
| cups |
2.4.18-1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | ghostscript-cups [debian/control:65] |
| debian-junior |
1.32+nmu1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for junior-desktop) Recommends -> Depends junior-tasks [debian/control:72] |
| grub2 |
2.14-3 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for grub-efi-riscv64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-riscv64-unsigned [debian/control:570] |
| grub2 |
2.14-3 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for grub-efi-arm-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-arm-unsigned [debian/control:416] |
| inkscape |
1.4.3-2 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for inkscape) Suggests -> Depends python3-packaging [debian/control:61] |
| mc |
3:4.8.33-1.1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for mc) Suggests -> Recommends unzip [debian/control:30] |
| nagios-plugins-contrib |
48.20250420+nmu1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for monitoring-plugins-contrib) Suggests -> Recommends python3 [debian/control:21] |
| nagios-plugins-contrib |
48.20250420+nmu1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for monitoring-plugins-contrib) Suggests -> Recommends python3-pymongo [debian/control:21] |
| node-vega-embed |
6.23.0-2 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for node-vega-embed) Recommends -> Depends node-vega | node-vega-lite [debian/control:34] |
| openstack-cluster-installer |
43.0.31 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for puppet-module-oci) Recommends -> Depends puppet-module-vmms [debian/control:398] |
| python-kafka |
2.0.2-12 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for python3-kafka) Suggests -> Depends python3-six [debian/control:44] |
| python-kafka |
2.0.2-13 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for python3-kafka) Suggests -> Depends python3-six [debian/control:44] |
| tryton-modules-party |
7.0.7-1 |
|
warning |
redundant-installation-prerequisite |
1 |
(in section for tryton-modules-party) Recommends -> Depends python3-stdnum [debian/control:20] |
