[devscripts] 03/03: Add apt to Recommends.

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Sat Dec 5 09:33:33 UTC 2015


I see another oddity in the dependency list. bash-completion is in the 
build dependency. This looks wrong to me as we do not use it's build 
tools. However it is absent from the Recommends where I believe it belongs.

On 05/12/15 01:36, James McCoy wrote:
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> jamessan pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository devscripts.
>
> commit 3a658e8034f7f95abad7514f89f19d36d209cc9a
> Author: James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
> Date:   Fri Dec 4 20:33:49 2015 -0500
>
>      Add apt to Recommends.
>
>      While apt is typically installed on a Debian system, it isn't required
>      to be.  Add the relationship to play it safe.
>
>      Closes: #807065
>      Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
> ---
>   debian/changelog | 2 ++
>   debian/control   | 1 +
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> index 4c56384..96118b5 100644
> --- a/debian/changelog
> +++ b/debian/changelog
> @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ devscripts (2.15.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
>       + Remove unnecessary requirement that “apt-cache policy $pkg” shows a
>         priority of 0 for the Candidate version.  (Closes: #807064)
>       + Fix parsing of sources.list lines with options.  (Closes: #674812)
> +  * Add apt to Recommends, since various scripts use tools from apt.  (Closes:
> +    #807065)
>
>     [ Daniel Kahn Gillmor ]
>     * debuild:
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index 919b1b7..643be2a 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.0),
>            ${python3:Depends},
>            ${shlibs:Depends}
>   Recommends: at,
> +            apt,
>               dctrl-tools,
>               dput | dupload,
>               fakeroot,
>




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