Bug#611331: install-info dependency dropped and should not have been

Raphael Hertzog hertzog at debian.org
Fri Jan 28 07:16:23 UTC 2011


Package: jed-common
Version: 1:0.99.19-2

Hi,

I noticed just now that jed/xjed no longer depends on install-info
due to this:

   * Dropped install-info from the Depends field of jed and xjed. This
     package is needed by jed-common and pulled in via dh_installinfo.
 
 -- Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de>  Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:42:14 +0200 

This was a bad decision. jed-common doesn't depends on install-info
but on "dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info" so install-info will NOT be
pulled in the upgrade if dpkg is upgraded at the same time.

Please fix the dependency on jed-common to be unconditional (the dependency
introduced by dh_installinfo will then be automatically simplified as it's
redundant).

Cheers,
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