Bug#736832: closed by Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org> (Re: Bug#736832: Double dependencies for vlc-nox)

[Daniel James]

Hi Sebastian,

I don't mind this bug being closed if you think it isn't worth fixing.

Just for the record, this is not an artefact of packages.debian.org -
taking a look at the debian/control file for the binary vlc-nox package
in sid, you can see that...

1. dependencies are listed on libavcodec55 plus most or all of the
dependencies of libavcodec55, which is unnecessary, since depending on
libavcodec55 should be enough.

2. there is a Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) which should no longer be
required, since all versions of dpkg currently available in Debian are
newer than this.

Cheers!

Daniel