control: tag -1 +moreinfo Hello Dan,
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:05:08AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > On > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps > please add an explicit statement: > > A package listed in Depends must not also be listed in Suggests or > Recommends. > > Or > > A package listed in Depends may also be listed in Suggests or > Recommends. Could you explain why you think this is needed, please? What problems could be caused by a package being listed in more than one field, and what problems could be caused by forbidding that? Semantically, it seems we should allow things like this: Depends: foo (>= 2) Recommends: foo (>= 3) but I don't yet see why Policy needs to say anything about it. -- Sean Whitton
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