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 1.92.0-4 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-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for ceph-mds) Recommends -> Depends ceph-common [debian/control:313]
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]
cups 2.4.20-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | foomatic-filters [debian/control:65]
cups 2.4.20-1 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 2.14-4 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-arm-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-arm-unsigned [debian/control:416]
grub2 2.14-4 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-riscv64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-riscv64-unsigned [debian/control:570]
grub2 2.16-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-arm-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-arm-unsigned [debian/control:416]
grub2 2.16-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for grub-efi-riscv64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-riscv64-unsigned [debian/control:570]
inkscape 1.4.3-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for inkscape) Suggests -> Depends python3-packaging [debian/control:61]
libspring-java 4.3.30-6 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite 1 (in section for libspring-context-java) Suggests -> Depends groovy [debian/control:152]
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]
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]