Hi, Whilst looking through our current list of Recommends for any that should be Suggests instead, I spotted a number of items which appear to be unnecessary now. In each case, I've noted where the relationship occurs and why I'd suggest it's no longer needed.
In some cases, the entire relationship could be dropped without affecting building on sarge and above; in the remainder at least the versioning of the dependency appears to no longer be relevant unless we want to support building on oldoldstable (i.e. woody). Any thoughts / comments / objections ? Cheers, Adam perl (>= 5.8) [build-dependency and dependency] sarge has 5.8.4. debmake (<< 3.5) [conflict] Removed from the archive for lenny onwards and even sarge has 3.7.10 dupload (<< 2.1) [conflict] (>= 2.1) [recommends] sarge has 2.6.3 suidmanager (<< 0.51) [conflicts] Doesn't exist in >= sarge. Even in woody it was a transitional package that imported its database in to dpkg-statoverride's. debianutils (>= 2.0) [dependency] sarge has 2.8.4 sed (>= 2.95) [dependency] According to our changelog, this was added for support of the "T" command for wnpp-alert. The upstream changelog indicates that support for that was added in 2001. Version 2.95 appears never to have been in Debian (the Debian changelog goes from 2.05 to 3.01) but looking at the upstream changelog I'd guess this was intended to be 3.95 (released October 2002 and therefore too late for woody). No-one appears to have noticed that in the past three years however :-) sarge has 4.1.2 and therefore "T" support. gnupg (>= 1.0.7) [dependency] sarge has 1.4.1. woody had 1.0.6-4. libdigest-md5-perl [recommends] Provided by perl since 5.8.0. sarge has 5.8.4. More to the point, the perl 5.8 packages conflict (due to Providing it) with a version of libdigest-md5-perl higher than that which was last in the archive so this is a no-op when combined with the perl >= 5.8 dependency. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
