Bug#82227: tetex-extra pre-depends on orphaned package dpkg-perl

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Martin Michlmayr writes:
 > Package: tetex-extra
 > Version: 1.0.2+20000804-4
 > 
 > tetex-extra has a
 >   Pre-Depends: dpkg-perl
 > 
 > However, dpkg-perl (dpkg-scriptlib) has been orphaned for over
 > 160 days.  There is no one currently maintaining this package,
 > and according to some dpkg experts this package should be
 > removed from Debian as soon as possible.
 > 
 > Please, can you drop the Pre-Depends on this package so dpkg-perl
 > can be removed.  I don't know how much effort it will be to drop
 > this dependency, but it's necessary.

We really don't need it anymore since we have "dpkg
--assert-multi-conrep" now. I will make a new upload which drops the
predepends soon.

C