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Bug#274747: dependency on dpkg-dev is not required for provides



Package: type-handling
Version: 0.2.23
Severity: normal

This issue has just become somewhat more commonplace:
gnome-desktop-environment now uses type-handling, depending on
"gnome-mount | linux-gnu", and on "policykit-1-gnome | not+linux-gnu".
Note that gnome-desktop-environment, as a metapackage, uses
"Architecture: all".  This seems like a very useful application of
type-handling.

Please, consider splitting the provides into a separate package which
does not depend on dpkg-dev.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages type-handling depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.4     Debian package development tools

type-handling recommends no packages.

type-handling suggests no packages.



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