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

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:09:32 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:29:04 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Damyan Ivanov:
> > > 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 :)
[..]
> > 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).
> 
> Currently we have
> Recommends: apt-file (>= 2.5.0),
> and my idea was to bump this to >= 3.
> 
> apt-file itself has Depends: apt (>= 1.1.8); we could maybe also use
> the same term; OTOH having apt-file explicitly makes it clearer what
> this is about ...
> 
> I've now merged the changes into master, bumped the Recommends on
> apt-file to >= 3 (but I'm also fine with going for apt directly), and
> added a changelog entry.

Any opinions on 'apt-file (>= 3)' vs. 'apt (>= 1.1.8)'?


Cheers,
gregor

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