Package: uuid-runtime Version: 2.20.1-5.2 Severity: normal uuid-runtime description states it is used by libuuid:
$ dpkg -p uuid-runtime | tail -6 The uuidd daemon is used to generate UUIDs, especially time-based UUID???s, in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large numbers of threads trying to grab UUID???s running on different CPU???s. It is used by libuuid as well as the uuidgen program. Homepage: http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux/ Yet libuuid1 only recommends uuid-runtime: $ dpkg -p libuuid1 | grep Recommends Recommends: uuid-runtime Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/695719 : the vast majority of installations of libuuid1 don't actually *need* uuid-runtime Shouldn't the relation of uuid-runtime and libuuid1 be clearer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org