On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:22:30AM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I found three packages in my system they name itself in the Depends > field: libbonoboui2-0, libgail-common and libtextwrap1 > > What's the reason for a package to depend on itself? This makes it hard > for deborphan to detect them as orphaned. Should check lintian on this?
It should and it does... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ lintian libgail-common_1.8.4-1_powerpc.deb W: libgail-common: package-relation-with-self depends: libgail-common (>= 1.6.6) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
