Bug#43147: dpkg-dev doesn't depend on patch

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere <japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>]

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.1.6

This packaged requires patch to install debian source packages, and although
it says this if you do dpkg --info dpkg-utils_1.4.1.6.deb if you do apt-get
install dpkg-dev, and then try and install a package with
dpkg-source -x <package-name><package-name>  it gives out an error from patch
not being installed.
Should this be changed or is this normal procedure at the moment?

regards,
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Jean-Paul Blaquiere
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