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Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??



"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@debian.org> writes:

> In some cases, particularly when the Depends can be satisfied by
> different sets of alternatives, this change could have the effect of
> changing the packages actually pulled in by apt-get or aptitude.  I will
> be happy to post a couple such examples -- one hypothetical, one real --
> if requested.  (They are a bit long so I'm not including them in this
> email.)

Please, revert this change.

This is indeed a issue on APT. I'm willing to work on that on APT side
but it will take some time.

Packages order _is_ important for APT. It shouldn't be but currently
it does matter.

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