Bug#807065: devscripts: Missing relation to "apt": many tools use apt-get and/or apt-cache

[Axel Beckert]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.9
Severity: minor

Hi,

many tools in devscripts use apt-get and/or apt-cache:

$ degrep -l 'apt-cache|apt-get' devscripts
/etc/bash_completion.d/devscripts.pkgnames
/etc/bash_completion.d/devscripts.chdist
/usr/bin/debcheckout
/usr/bin/origtargz
/usr/bin/dcontrol
/usr/bin/mk-build-deps
/usr/bin/dget
/usr/bin/build-rdeps
/usr/bin/whodepends
/usr/bin/debi
/usr/bin/chdist
/usr/share/devscripts/conf.default
/usr/bin/debc
/usr/share/doc/devscripts/devscripts.conf.ex
$

But there's no package relation to apt at all:

$ apt-cache show devscripts | fgrep apt
$

I'd suggest to add apt either as Suggests or Recommends.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.3
ii  libc6        2.21-3
ii  perl         5.20.2-6
ii  python3      3.4.3-7
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
pn  at                          <none>
ii  curl                        7.45.0-1+b1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.24-1
ii  debian-keyring              2015.11.30
ii  dput-ng [dput]              1.10
ii  dupload                     2.7.0
ii  equivs                      2.0.9+nmu1
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.25-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.19-6
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.05-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.90-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.19-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.69-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.13-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.38.1
ii  man-db                      2.7.5-1
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.4-1
ii  pseudo [fakeroot]           1.7.4-2
ii  python3-debian              0.1.27
ii  python3-magic               1:5.25-2
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.10-3
ii  unzip                       6.0-20
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1+b1
ii  wget                        1.17-1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20150408cvs-1
ii  build-essential              12.1
ii  cvs-buildpackage             5.25
pn  debbindiff                   <none>
ii  devscripts-el                35.12
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.6-3
ii  gpgv                         1.4.19-6
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.21-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.03-1
ii  libterm-size-perl            0.207-1+b2
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.29-1
ii  mutt                         1.5.24-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:7.1p1-1
ii  s-nail [mailx]               14.8.5-3
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.5+nmu1
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-26

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