Subject: Bug#4263: dpkg-source requires patch

From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:49:43 -0400

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.8

In unpacking the sgmlspm dsc file on a fairly fresh system, I found:

# dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc 
dpkg-source: extracting sgmlspm in sgmlspm-1.03ii
dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2

Once patch was installed, dpkg-source completed successfully.

Since patch isn't in base, I assume this means that the dpkg Depends
field has to be amended to add 'patch'.

Susan Kleinmann

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 13:49 BST

Susan G. Kleinmann writes ("Bug#4263: dpkg-source requires patch"):
...
> dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2
...

patch 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.