Bug#145916: patch to make build-dep more verbose when it fails to satisfy dependencies

[Mike O'Connor <stew@vireo.org>]

attached is a patch which makes apt-get build-dep spit out the
broken dependencies when apt-get build-dep fails.

thanks,
stew

diff -ruN apt-0.7.9.orig/cmdline/apt-get.cc apt-0.7.9/cmdline/apt-get.cc
--- apt-0.7.9.orig/cmdline/apt-get.cc	2007-10-31 18:58:23.000000000 -0400
+++ apt-0.7.9/cmdline/apt-get.cc	2007-10-31 18:59:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -2553,8 +2553,11 @@
 	 _error->Discard();
       
       // Now we check the state of the packages,
-      if (Cache->BrokenCount() != 0)
-         return _error->Error(_("Build-dependencies for %s could not be satisfied."),*I);
+      if (Cache->BrokenCount() != 0) 
+      {
+	  ShowBroken(cout, Cache, false);
+	  return _error->Error(_("Build-dependencies for %s could not be satisfied."),*I);
+      }
    }
   
    if (InstallPackages(Cache, false, true) == false)

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