Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] George Danchev 

| I fixed some bugs with my previous patch, and now the new one is found at [1].
| Unfortunately, I also found that I erroneously believed that AptPkg is only 
| loaded run-time, which is not true and I will need to find ways to tackle that 
| as well. For the time being, libapt-pkg-perl is need, but the apt cache is 
| only loaded when the -f option is used, and not with -s. You can see that is 
| you comment $_config->{quiet} = 2;

Use something like

eval {
    require AptPkg::Config;
    import AptPkg::Config '$_config';
    require AptPkg::System;
    import AptPkg::System '$_system';
    require AptPkg::Cache;
    require AptPkg::Version;
};
if ($@) {
  die "libapt-pkg-perl not available, can't use -f";
}

to do the check at run-time.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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