On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 15:34 +0100, Paride Legovini wrote:

> Thanks Paul, I agree and by tomorrow I will do a new upload adding a
> 
>    Recommends: wireless-regdb

Thanks.

> I wonder if any QA tool or practice could have helped me to spot that 
> the package was missing an important indirect dependency. I normally do 
> a debdiff of new uploads with the previous version, but this doesn't 
> help with indirect dependencies.

You could have diffed the piuparts or debootstrap logs perhaps but in
general there isn't really any easy way to find the consequences of
dropping dependencies. I think it would be a good idea for you to start
a discussion about this topic on debian-devel, it could be interesting.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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