Debian bug report logs - #1717, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1717: gopherd recommends freeWAIS - nonexistent package
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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Package: gopherd
Version: 2.1.1-2

The `gopherd' package says:
 recommends: freeWAIS

However, there is no package `freeWAIS', nor does any package Provide
`freeWAIS'.  (Packages-Master of the 21st of October, 00:49GMT.)

This means that when you select gopherd in dselect you get a
conflict/dependency resolution screen which is supposed to warn you
about this potential problem (remember that a Recommends line is quite
a strong recommendation).

(Currently - dpkg 1.0.5 - the conflict/dependency resolution screen is
less informative than it might be; I intend to improve this, but the
problem will not go away until the bad recommendation is fixed.)

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Bug#1717: Acknowledgement (was: gopherd recommends freeWAIS - nonexistent package)
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