Bug#714609: astromenace: missing Depends: xz-utils

[Boris Pek]

Hi,

> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
> per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
> a release, thus the severity.
>
>> From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
>   Selecting previously unselected package astromenace.
>   (Reading database ... 7531 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Unpacking astromenace (from .../astromenace_1.3.1+repack-2_amd64.deb) ...
>   Setting up astromenace (1.3.1+repack-2) ...
>   tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
>   tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>   tar: Child returned status 2
>   tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>   dpkg: error processing astromenace (--configure):
>    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    astromenace
>
> xz-utils was recently demoted from required to standard, therefore packages
> using it must depend on xz-utils.


As we can see in dpkg changelog [1] for version 1.16.4:
>  * Add support for liblzma to handle .xz and .lzma compressed files, and
>    switch to it instead of using xz-utils. This removes the xz-utils
>    Pre-Depends from dpkg. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>.

I am wondering why it was not used. Any ideas?

[1] http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.16.10_changelog

Best regards,
Boris