Bug#798420: devscripts: bts script requires liburi-perl as install dependency

[Tim Potter]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.8
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Hi there.  I've recently disabled installing recommended packages 
and this has had the side-effect of breaking the "bts" script.  In the
control file the liburi-perl package is mentioned as a recommends, but
in reality it's a hard requirement:

$ bts
Can't locate URI.pm in @INC (you may need to install the URI module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/bts line 63.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/bts line 63.

$ sudo apt-get install liburi-perl

$ bts
Usage: bts [options] command [args] [#comment] [.|, command ... ]
Valid options are:
   -o, --offline          Do not attempt to connect to BTS for show/bug
                          commands: use cached copy
   --online, --no-offline Attempt to connect (default)
   -n, --no-action        Do not send emails but print them to standard output.
   --no-cache             Do not attempt to cache new versions of BTS
[...]

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.18.5-tinycore64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.2
ii  libc6        2.19-19
ii  perl         5.20.2-6
ii  python3      3.4.3-4
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
pn  at                          <none>
ii  curl                        7.44.0-1
pn  dctrl-tools                 <none>
pn  debian-keyring              <none>
pn  dput | dupload              <none>
pn  equivs                      <none>
pn  fakeroot                    <none>
ii  file                        1:5.22+15-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.19-3
pn  libdistro-info-perl         <none>
pn  libencode-locale-perl       <none>
pn  libjson-perl                <none>
pn  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  <none>
pn  libsoap-lite-perl           <none>
pn  liburi-perl                 <none>
pn  libwww-perl                 <none>
pn  lintian                     <none>
ii  man-db                      2.7.2-1
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
pn  patchutils                  <none>
ii  python3-debian              0.1.27
pn  python3-magic               <none>
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
pn  strace                      <none>
pn  unzip                       <none>
pn  wdiff                       <none>
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
pn  bsd-mailx | mailx            <none>
ii  build-essential              12.1
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  debbindiff                   <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.19-3
pn  libauthen-sasl-perl          <none>
pn  libfile-desktopentry-perl    <none>
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
pn  libtimedate-perl             <none>
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
pn  mutt                         <none>
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.9p1-1
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
pn  w3m                          <none>

-- no debconf information