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 tag type tag information count
bibledit-cloud 5.1.023-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for bibledit-cloud) Recommends -> Depends zip [debian/control:17] 1
ceph 18.2.4+ds-13 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for ceph-mds) Recommends -> Depends ceph-common [debian/control:321] 1
cups 2.4.10-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | foomatic-filters [debian/control:65] 1
cups 2.4.10-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for cups) Recommends -> Depends cups-filters | ghostscript-cups [debian/control:65] 1
debian-junior 1.32 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for junior-desktop) Recommends -> Depends junior-tasks [debian/control:73] 1
grub2 2.12-5 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for grub-efi-ia64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-ia64-unsigned [debian/control:427] 1
grub2 2.12-5 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for grub-efi-riscv64-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-riscv64-unsigned [debian/control:651] 1
grub2 2.12-5 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for grub-efi-arm-bin) Recommends -> Depends grub-efi-arm-unsigned [debian/control:497] 1
lemonldap-ng 2.20.2+ds-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for liblemonldap-ng-portal-perl) Suggests -> Depends liblist-moreutils-perl [debian/control:299] 1
libreoffice 4:24.8.4-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for libreoffice-dev) Suggests -> Recommends libreofficekit-dev [debian/control:5205] 1
mc 3:4.8.33-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for mc) Suggests -> Recommends unzip [debian/control:30] 1
nagios-plugins-contrib 46.20240417 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for monitoring-plugins-contrib) Suggests -> Recommends python3 [debian/control:21] 1
nagios-plugins-contrib 46.20240417 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for monitoring-plugins-contrib) Suggests -> Recommends python3-pymongo [debian/control:21] 1
node-vega-embed 6.23.0-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for node-vega-embed) Recommends -> Depends node-vega | node-vega-lite [debian/control:35] 1
node-webassemblyjs 1.11.4+dfsg+~cs10.11.17-2 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for node-webassemblyjs) Suggests -> Depends node-glob [debian/control:29] 1
python-kafka 2.0.2-9 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for python3-kafka) Suggests -> Depends python3-six [debian/control:44] 1
tryton-modules-party 7.0.5-1 warning redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for tryton-modules-party) Recommends -> Depends python3-stdnum [debian/control:20] 1