[Aptitude-devel] Bug#746824: Bug#746824: Patch aptitude: ftbfs with GCC-4.9

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Sphinx Jiang wrote:
> Since there is a patch for the package aptitude, in my opinion quilt should
> be added to Build-Depends, it is not included now.

No, dpkg source format "3.0 (quilt)" no more needs quilt itself. dpkg
has quilt functionality built-in.

See
https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#Does_a_3.0_.28quilt.29_source_package_need_to_build-depend_on_quilt.3F
for details.

		Regards, Axel
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