Susan G. Kleinmann writes ("Bug#4262: dpkg-source requires cpio"):
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> # dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
> dpkg-source: failure: exec cpio: No such file or directory
> dpkg-source: failure: cpio gave error exit status 2
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> Installing cpio cured the problem, but suggests that the newest
> versions of dpkg need to depend on cpio, which (I think) means that
> cpio would have to be added to base.
cpio is only required by dpkg-source, and not to install packages.
I've added it to Suggests and mentioned it in the Description. This
will be in 1.3.10.
Ian.
