Bug#703382: maven-debian-helper: mh_make: Do not use sudo

[Hilko Bengen]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 1.5.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

apt-file has not needed root privileges for its operation since 2008 or
2009 (see #540905 for example), so it's unnecessary to use sudo for its
invokation.

If mh_make finds that the apt-file or devscripts packages are missing,
it ought to give an explanation what to do and exit instead of going
ahead and trying to install packages on behalf of the user. By the way:
If sudo is not installed or if the user has not been sudo privileges,
mh_make would fail in interesting ways...

A patch that removes sudo from the picture is attached below.

Cheers,
-Hilko

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