Control: severity -1 normal

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:05:54 -0400 Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com>
wrote:
(...)

> Depends: monodoc-browser | monodoc-http | monodoc-viewer
> Suggests: monodoc-gtk-manual, monodoc-gecko-manual, monodoc-nunit-
manual

(...) 

> monodoc-viewer is a virtual package provided by monodoc-http so maybe
> that dependency should be dropped too.
> 
> monodoc-gtk-manual and monodoc-gecko-manual aren't available in
Debian.
> 
> There is monodoc-gtk2.0-manual and monodoc-gtk3.0-manual though.
> 
> I am filing this as serious because my understanding is that these
> dependencies can keep no-longer-built-from-source (NBS) packages
> installed on Debian computers which can be a security issue.

I could not find packages that reverse B-D on monodoc-manual, so 
I don't think this will create FTBFS, at least not with packages
currently in Debian. Because of that I'll reduce the severity to 
normal.

Beside that, you're right that the Depends: line of monodoc-manual
should be simplified.

Cheers,
tobi

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