Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much"): > Yeah, it's a GUI program we're running in batch mode. In an ideal world, > there would be some separate library and CLI tool that would do batch > conversions that would be kept separate from all the GUI machinery, but > I'm sure life is short for upstream and they haven't had an obvious reason > to bother with this.
So, err, anyway, thanks for the all the explanations and sorry for what turns out to be a pretty useless bug report. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.