Package: libpcre3 Version: 2:8.39-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
As can be read on https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation : > This is not needed from Debian 8 (Jessie) onwards, and is now > deprecated. Debhelper will automatically fill in the > ${misc:Pre-Depends} variable correctly for you. Since a long time ${misc:Pre-Depends} expands to empty and thus packages using that just needs a rebuild to get rid of the (pre-)dependency. Unfortunately the pcre3 packaging doesn't use the variable but instead seems to hard-code the dependency as can be seen on http://sources.debian.net/src/pcre3/2:8.39-3/debian/control/#L23 Please consider either just dropping the Pre-Depends or switching over to using the ${misc:Pre-Depends} variable. (Once this is fixed, it should be possible to avoid multiarch-support package being installed in a minimal debootstrap.) Regards, Andreas Henriksson
