[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1082373: Depends is stronger than Pre-Depends

[Thomas Ward]

Hello!

Currently, when we put a Pre-Depends on nginx-common for nginx in, we get a Lintian failiure case:


{"type"=>"failure", "message"=>"redundant-installation-prerequisite (in section for nginx) Depends -> Pre-Depends nginx-common (= ${source:Version}) [debian/control:24]"}

We already have a Depends: on nginx-common in the nginx binary package. That SHOULD tell apt to install nginx-common first because it's a Dependency.

I'm not sure there's anything actually actionable in this bug.  It sounds like if Depends: is not setting the proper priority, then that's an apt/dpkg problem not a src:nginx / bin:nginx bug.
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