Subject: Bug#4262: dpkg-source requires cpio

From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:45:24 -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: failure: exec cpio: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: cpio gave error exit status 2
# type -a cpio
type: cpio: not found

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.

Susan Kleinmann

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 13:48 BST

Susan G. Kleinmann writes ("Bug#4262: dpkg-source requires cpio"):
...
> dpkg-source: failure: cpio gave error exit status 2
...
> 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.