[Python-apps-team] Bug#674070: canto: Build-Depends on python-support for no apparent reason

[Barry Warsaw]

Package: canto
Version: 0.7.10-3
Severity: normal

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Dear Maintainer,

I see the following line in debian/control for canto 0.7.10-3:

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), python-dev, python-support,
libncurses5-dev, libncursesw5-dev

I see no reason for the python-support B-D though, as debian/rules
doesn't reference it at all.  In fact, removing this B-D results in no
significant difference in the resulting .deb (I think the difference
can be ignored):

% debdiff *.deb
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]

Files in first .deb but not in second
- -------------------------------------
- -rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/python-support/canto.private
- -rwxr-xr-x  root/root   DEBIAN/postinst
- -rwxr-xr-x  root/root   DEBIAN/prerm

Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
- ------------------------------------------------
Depends: [-python (<< 2.8), python (>= 2.7), python-support (>=
0.90.0),-] libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20070908),
python-chardet, [-python-feedparser-] {+python-feedparser, python (>=
2.6) | python-multiprocessing+}
Installed-Size: [-273-] {+268+}
Version: [-0.7.10-3-] {+0.7.10-3~nopysup1+}

Maybe this is just leftover cruft?

Cheers.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers precise-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise'), (100, 'precise-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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