Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Running gdebi on any control file.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
gdebi --apt-line debian/control
* What was the outcome of this action?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
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* What outcome did you expect instead?
A list of required dependencies as set out in the control file, as it does in wheezy.
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Control: tags -1 + unreproducible This behaviour matches "all dependencies are satisfied": $ PYTHONPATH=. python3 ./gdebi --apt-line debian/control Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-vte-2.91 intltool pyflakes3 python3-all xvfb $ sudo apt install gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-vte-2.91 intltool pyflakes3 python3-all xvfb --no-install-recommends $ PYTHONPATH=. python3 ./gdebi --apt-line debian/control Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done $ I can't find a version where this was the case. Even the initial commit with --apt-line already had + if options.apt_line == True: + (install, remove, unauthenticated) = debi._deb.requiredChanges + print " ".join(install) + print " ".join([pkg+"-" for pkg in remove]) + sys.exit(0)