Bug#275379: apt-get: please support "satisfy"

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Andreas Barth wrote:

> * Adam Heath (doogie@debian.org) [041013 21:10]:
> > Er, what is this patch supposed to do?
>
> | apt-get satisfy debhelper (>= 4.1.0) glibc sed
> ensures that these packages are installed afterwards.
>
> > From reading the patch, the commands, and the variable names, it seems to do
> > the exact same thing as build-dep.
> +   string dependencylist;
> +   for (const char **I = CmdL.FileList + 1; *I != 0; I++)
> +       dependencylist += ((string) *I + (string) " ");
> This create a binary string as dependency list that is just parsed as
> apt-get build-dep - just that the build-dependencies are not got out of
> the source package, but from the command line.

parse error.