[get-build-deps] missing dependency on aptitude

Yeah, I also noticed that recently. This is also a tool that needs to be moved out of here, and if possible shared with sbuild, pbuilder, etc.

2011/6/19 Stefano Rivera <email address hidden>:
> This is also a tool that needs to be
> moved out of here, and if possible shared with sbuild, pbuilder, etc.

For that, it should probably be rewritten to use python-apt. Currently
it's just a big hack.

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Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
Free Software Developer       363DEAE3

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.129

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.129) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * syncpackage: Convert to new LP API, with --no-lp available for the old
    style of operation.
  * syncpackage: Require -f/--force option to overwrite Ubuntu changes.

  [ Jelmer Vernooij ]
  * Remove several tools not specific to Ubuntu that have been migrated to
    lptools (LP: #708886):
   - get-branches (renamed to lp-get-branches)
   - grab-attachments (renamed to lp-grab-attachments)
   - lp-project-upload
   - lp-list-bugs
   - lp-set-dup
   - lp-shell

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * syncpackage: Show changes to be synced when performing native syncs.
  * syncpackage: Check the sync blacklist.
  * syncpackage: Support --bug (extra bugs to be closed by the sync) with
    native syncs. (Bugs are closed one individually, via the API, post-sync)
  * dgetlp, submittodebian, 404main: Use unicode strings for literal strings
    containing non-ASCII characters (LP: #836661)
  * Recommend pbuilder | aptitude for get-build-deps, and exit with an error
    if neither are installed (LP: #799368)
  * get-build-deps: Tell aptitude not to follow Recommends (LP: #817500)
  * doc/requestsync.1: Document the -C option (LP: #833408)
  * ubuntutools.archive: Don't write .dsc files until we pull the entire
    source package, just hold it in memory. Avoids littering the current
    directory (LP: #838361)
  * Run harvest as part of sponsor-patch (LP: #833699)

  [ Julian Taylor ]
  * requestsync: omit dups when checking for duplicate requests (LP: #842217)

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * sponsor-patch: Default to not upload the package.
  * requestsync: Do not crash on user abort (Closes: #637168).

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:31:31 +0200