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
bibledit-cloud 5.1.023-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for bibledit-cloud) Recommends -> Depends zip [debian/control:17]
boost1.88 1.88.0-1.4 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for libboost-mpi1.88-dev) Suggests -> Depends libboost-graph1.88-dev [debian/control:926]
ceph 18.2.7+ds-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for ceph-mds) Recommends -> Depends ceph-common [debian/control:321]
cups 2.4.14-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | ghostscript-cups [debian/control:65]
cups 2.4.14-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | foomatic-filters [debian/control:65]
debian-junior 1.32 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for junior-desktop) Recommends -> Depends junior-tasks [debian/control:73]
emacs-jabber 0.9.0-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for elpa-jabber) Recommends -> Depends emacs [debian/control:16]
fenrir 2025.0.7.16-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for fenrir) Recommends -> Depends python3-pexpect [debian/control:17]
grub2 2.12-9 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-ia64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-ia64-unsigned [debian/control:427]
grub2 2.12-9 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-riscv64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-riscv64-unsigned [debian/control:651]
grub2 2.12-9 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-arm-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-arm-unsigned [debian/control:497]
grub2 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-arm-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-arm-unsigned [debian/control:406]
grub2 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-riscv64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-riscv64-unsigned [debian/control:560]
lemonldap-ng 2.22.0+ds-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for liblemonldap-ng-portal-perl) Suggests -> Depends liblist-moreutils-perl [debian/control:297]
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 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for monitoring-plugins-contrib) Suggests -> Recommends python3 [debian/control:21]
nagios-plugins-contrib 48.20250420 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for monitoring-plugins-contrib) Suggests -> Recommends python3-pymongo [debian/control:21]
node-vega-embed 6.23.0-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for node-vega-embed) Recommends -> Depends node-vega | node-vega-lite [debian/control:35]
node-webassemblyjs 1.11.4+dfsg+~cs10.11.17-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for node-webassemblyjs) Suggests -> Depends node-glob [debian/control:29]
python-kafka 2.0.2-9 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-kafka) Suggests -> Depends python3-six [debian/control:44]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-requests [debian/control:72]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-tqdm [debian/control:72]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-requests [debian/control:38]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-pdfminer [debian/control:72]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for rows) Suggests -> Recommends python3-requests [debian/control:43]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-psycopg2 [debian/control:72]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for rows) Recommends -> Depends python3-requests [debian/control:38]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for rows) Suggests -> Recommends python3-tqdm [debian/control:43]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-cached-property [debian/control:72]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for rows) Suggests -> Recommends python3-requests-cache [debian/control:43]
rows 0.5.0~dev0~1~1d5a326-1.1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for python3-rows) Suggests -> Depends python3-requests-cache [debian/control:72]
tryton-modules-party 7.0.6-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for tryton-modules-party) Recommends -> Depends python3-stdnum [debian/control:20]