[Bug 452352] [NEW] Package lacks dependencies

[Nicolás Alvarez]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: lcov

I tried running the 'genpng' tool included in the 'lcov' package, and it
printed the following message:

    ERROR: required module GD.pm not found on this system (see
www.cpan.org).

It seemed strange that the module wasn't declared a dependency of lcov
so it would be automatically installed. So I started aptitude and looked
at lcov's dependencies (maybe libgd-gd2-perl was in Suggests).

I found that lcov doesn't depend on *anything*! Not even in perl,
despite being *written* in perl, or in gcov, which it surely requires.
There is absolutely nothing in the Depends, Recommends, and Suggests
lines.

I'm in Ubuntu Hardy. Although I used ubuntu-bug so I think there will be
detailed system info attached here...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 15 14:17:30 2009
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: lcov 1.5-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_AR:es
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lcov
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic x86_64

** Affects: lcov (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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