Bug#192892: apt: missing Build-depends: autoconf

[Peter Lundkvist <p.lundkvist@telia.com>]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> No, it doesn't.  The apt source package does not require autoconf to build,
> so it does not need a build-dependency on it.  If you can demonstrate
> otherwise, please do so.

Played with sbuild, trying to figure out what version number it
would give a Debian native package on a bin-NMU build. This vill
trigger a autoconf run, as the version number changes. Don't
know if this will happen in practice.

Peter

To reproduce:
sbuild --make-binNMU="test binNMU-build" apt_0.5.5

Output from sbuild:
...
dpkg-source: extracting apt in apt-0.5.5
*** Created changelog entry for bin-NMU version 0.5.5.0.1
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is apt
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.5.5.0.1
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
 /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
sed -e 's/0.5.5/0.5.5.0.1/' configure.in > configure.in.$$;mv
configure.in.$$ configure.in
/usr/bin/make configure
make[1]: Entering directory `/build/peter/apt-0.5.5'
make[1]: autoconf: Command not found
make[1]: *** [configure] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/peter/apt-0.5.5'
make: *** [configure] Error 2