Bug#810294: debi: use apt to install packages if it is new enough

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:11:59AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.15.9
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/debi
> User: devscripts at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: debi
> X-Debbugs-CC: apt at packages.debian.org
> 
> Please make debi use apt to install packages if apt is new enough
> (apt 1.1~exp2 or later) to support directly installing .deb files.
> 
> This will reduce confusion from people who don't know they have to
> run apt-get -f install after running dpkg -i foo.deb
> 
> I would only do it with new enough versions of apt to ease backports.
> 
> There probably needs to be an option to switch back to dpkg -i too.

APT in stable now has support for directly installing .deb, .changes,
and build-deps for directories and .dsc files. So, debi --with-depends
can now just become a wrapper that only finds the changes files and
then calls:

	apt-get install <.changes file>
	apt-get install --only-upgrade <.changes file> (if --upgrade)

The path given to apt needs to be either absolute or start with
../ or ./ to prevent overlap with package names.

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