Bug#727642: dose-distcheck: fails on input that works with edos-debcheck and is "correct"

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Ralf Treinen dixit:

>> I get the following error with dose-debcheck in both wheezy and sid:
>
>Thanks for having produced a minimal input file to reproduce the bug,
>that is much appreciated!

You’re welcome!

>The problem seems to be in the generation of explanations, if you drop
>the --explain flag then there is no fatal error.

Ah, okay.

My use case for this is basically: I’ve got a somewhat minimal,
fully self-contained “bootstrap” repository, which contains all
essential and build-essential packages, and all packages required
to bring a system up otherwise (kernel, bootloader, etc.), and a
few convenience packages, and packages needed by cowbuilder and
sbuild, etc. and, with this, I can check whether I need to add
any new dependencies, like when ustr became pseudo-Essential.

>I'll check with Pietro what is going on here. -Ralf.

Thanks!

bye,
//mirabilos
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