Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.3.0
Severity: minor

Policy 7.2:
>(The other three dependency fields, `Recommends', `Suggests' and
> `Enhances', are only used by the various front-ends to `dpkg' such
> as `dselect'.)

Since apt uses Recommends now, and can show Suggests, perhaps it would
make a better example here.  In any case, dselect now by no means
represents the most popular dpkg frontend.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information



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