Bug#307833: Processed: Re: apt-file: broken. curl is needed

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

I've taken a look at the bug logs and I'm very disappointed with the
maintainer's lack of engagement.  There seem to be a lot of people who
are interested in helping maintain this package.

Would any of the keen people we see involved in this bug report
consider contesting the maintainership of the package ?  The Committee
has the power in s6.1(2) of the Constitution to
  Decide ... who should be the maintainer for a package
but of course only when developers disagree.

Jesus, you write to Sebastien:
  In a previous conversation with me you pointed out that there are
  others downloaders that a user can decide to select, but failing to
  depend on at least one of the ones provided as a package by Debian
  renders the package unusable. Which is not acceptable.
Can we see that conversation ?  Are the emails archived anywhere ?

The control file at the moment says:
  Recommends: curl, wget
which is definitely wrong since at most one of these is used.

Sebastien, what is your opinion of Mike O'Connor's patch ?

Ian.