Package: dvbackup
Version: 0.0.4rj1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The package dvbackup "Recommends: star | afio | tar (>= 1) | cpio".
But tar is Essential, and dependencies on Essential packages are
prohibited by Policy (3.5). Versioned dependencies are okay; but
tar was already at >= 1 in even the earliest Debian releases (my Rex
CD-set has tar 1.11.8-5), so the version number here is meaningless.
Since the recommendation is already guaranteed to be fulfilled, none
of the other alternatives such as star have any effect; running
"apt-get install dvbackup" will never cause them to be pulled in.
My patch goes for "Suggests: star, afio, cpio".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ur dvbackup-0.0.4rj1.pristine/debian/control dvbackup-0.0.4rj1/debian/control
--- dvbackup-0.0.4rj1.pristine/debian/control 2008-06-29 16:32:05.000000000 +0100
+++ dvbackup-0.0.4rj1/debian/control 2008-06-29 17:04:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Package: dvbackup
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, libdv-bin (>= 0.99)
-Recommends: star | afio | tar (>= 1) | cpio
+Suggests: star, afio, cpio
Description: backup tool using MiniDV camcorders
Dvbackup hides the data it receives on standard input in a perfectly
legal DV (digital video) stream. This allows you to use your DV camcorder
