redundant-installation-prerequisite

A stronger field for prerequisites in the debian/control file satisfies the named condition stated in a weaker field.

For example, you would see this tag when the Depends field already requires that a package which is also listed in Recommends or Suggests is installed. Or, a package could be listed in both Recommends as well as Suggests.

Current versions of dpkg-gencontrol will silently ignore the weaker field, but like anything unexpected it could indicate another oversight, such as a misspelling or having forgotten to remove the stronger prereguisite when the intent was to move it to a weaker field.

Severity: warning
Experimental: false
Renamed from: stronger-dependency-implies-weaker

See also