Bug#802165: maven-debian-helper: Missing dependency on apt-file.

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 18/10/2015 20:46, tony mancill a écrit :

> I have moved devscripts and apt-file back to Recommends for the next
> upload.  If someone feels strongly that this isn't appropriate, we can
> discuss on the list.

The extra dependencies slow down the pbuilder build. I was surprised by
the missing dependency too, but on a second thought I realized it's
acceptable to hit the error once and install apt-file manually. The
error message is quite clear that's not terribly difficult to fix. On
the other hand the time spent installing the missing dependencies is
experienced by everyone and on every build.

An alternative would be to move mh_make to a separate binary package
(maven-helper-make?).

Emmanuel Bourg