[Cupt-devel] Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:

> And I guess that you can use "provides"/virtual packages for the case
> that you mention.  If somebody is going to the trouble of writing such
> a method, creating a virtual package is a minor issue.

Maybe the package description should mention that you might want a
download method if planning to use cupt with a sources.list using
protocols other than file:// and copy://.

The relevant package is libcupt2-0, and I don't think many people read
its package description, but that information could go in the cupt
description anyway.  How about this?

 debian/changelog |    5 +++++
 debian/control   |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git i/debian/changelog w/debian/changelog
index ba837784..36ff98ee 100644
--- i/debian/changelog
+++ w/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ cupt (2.5.4~) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
         the 'no download handlers' error message.
   * po:
     - Added Slovak translation by Ivan Masár. (Closes: #671793)
+  * debian:
+    - control:
+      - [Jonathan Nieder] Suggest installing a download manager in the 'cupt'
+        package description. Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo for the
+        report. (Closes: #672804)
 
  -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf at debian.org>  Mon, 07 May 2012 19:00:38 +0300
 
diff --git i/debian/control w/debian/control
index 0efee114..d837bdbf 100644
--- i/debian/control
+++ w/debian/control
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ Description: alternative front-end for dpkg -- console interface
   - system snapshots (needs packages 'dpkg-dev' and 'dpkg-repack').
  .
  Its interface is mostly like apt-get/aptitude console interface.
+ .
+ Cupt has built-in support for APT repositories using the file:// or copy://
+ URL schemas. For access to remote repositories using HTTP, install a
+ download method such as libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl.
 
 Package: libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl
 Architecture: any