Knife ignoring dependencies

My knife seems to not be alerting about missing dependencies?

grep depends cookbooks/rew_idxdb/metadata.rb

depends ‘apache2’

knife cookbook upload rew_idxdb

Uploading rew_idxdb [0.1.0]
Uploaded 1 cookbook.

This is a fresh setup, so none on the dependencies exist on the server
already.

Normally I get an error like

ERROR: Cookbook rew_idxdb depends on cookbook ‘apache2’ version ‘>= 0.0.0’,
ERROR: which is not currently being uploaded and cannot be found on the
server.

Why am I not getting this error now?

Steven Barre, RHCE, ZCE, MCP
steven@realestatewebmasters.com

Systems Administrator / Programmer
Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893