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

[Niels Thykier]

Damyan Ivanov:
> -=| gregor herrmann, 25.03.2016 17:19:47 +0100 |=-
>> [...]
> 
> Thank you gregor for your work on this!
> 

Indeed - thanks gregor

> 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.
> 
> 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 :)
> 
> 
> -- dam
> 

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).

Thanks,
~Niels



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