Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Lintian depends on bzip2, but only suggests xz-utils. This made sense
back in 2011 when these relationship were added[0]. But these days
source packages that use bzip2 compression are rare; OTOH xz is the
default compression format for .debian.tar and for native tarballs. So
it's much more important that users have xz-utils than bzip2 installed.
[0]
| lintian (2.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
| [...]
| * debian/control:
| + [NT] (Build-)Dependency changes.
| - xz-lzma is now preferred to lzma as Build-Dependency
| - Added depends on libdpkg-perl
| - Reduced dpkg-dev to a suggests, we can use libdpkg-perl as
| fallback.
| - Explicitly depends on bzip2 to always support bz2 source packages.
| - Added xz-utils as suggests - needed for .xz source packages.
| [...]
| -- Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:05:28 +0200
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Jakub Wilk
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