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depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version

The package declares a depends on an essential package, e.g. dpkg, without using a versioned depends. Packages do not need to depend on essential packages; essential means that they will always be present. The only reason to list an explicit dependency on an essential package is if you need a particular version of that package, in which case the version should be given in the dependency.

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The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.111.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ce6249d. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check fields/package-relations.

Visibility: error

The following 12 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 14 times (in any Lintian version).

There were no overrides.