Bug#815190: dh-make-perl: Accesses apt-file 3 cache directly

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:29:04 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:

> Damyan Ivanov:
> > FWIW the changes look good to me and now that the tests pass I see no 
> > reasons why this can't be merged in the master branch and released.

Great, thanks for checking!

> > What I am not clear about is whether this interface to apt-file is 
> > something new that is not available in stable. If so, we'd need either 
> > a suitable dependency or some kind of legacy support?
> > If this is a new interface I'd probably opt to adding the dependency 
> > and let stable users provide a patch :)

Yup, the dependency part in d/control is still missing.

> It is a new interface that requires APT 1.1 (or so).  It is not
> available in stable and nor do I expect it to be backported (though the
> APT maintainers could prove me wrong here).

Currently we have
Recommends: apt-file (>= 2.5.0),
and my idea was to bump this to >= 3.

apt-file itself has Depends: apt (>= 1.1.8); we could maybe also use
the same term; OTOH having apt-file explicitly makes it clearer what
this is about ...


I've now merged the changes into master, bumped the Recommends on
apt-file to >= 3 (but I'm also fine with going for apt directly), and
added a changelog entry.


Cheers,
gregor

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