Bug#671225: apt-file: remove unnecessary rapt-file dependencies

2012-05-03 Thread helix84
The reason why "dpkg --print-architecture" is better than "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" is that dpkg is a standard part of a Debian system, while dpkg-dev brings huge dependencies. Other than that, they are functionally equivalent - they use the Dpkg::Arch Perl module to determine the archit

Bug#671225: apt-file: remove unnecessary rapt-file dependencies

2012-05-02 Thread helix84
Package: apt-file Version: 2.5.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch rapt-file depends on dpkg-architecture from dpkg-dev package (which the depends on perl, gcc). dpkg-dev is now correctly listed as Recommends in 2.5.0 (sid, wheezy), which wasn't the case in 2.4.0 (squeeze). Assuming there isn't any ot