[Bug 158108] get-build-deps: improve local dependency handling without pbuilder-satisfydepends

[Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT)]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

When get-build-deps is used to install the dependencies for a local
source package (ie, looking at the debian/control file rather than apt's
database), by default it just runs pbuilder-satisfydepends, but in the
case that script isn't available it will manually call aptitude parsing
the output from dpkg-checkbuilddeps.

It would be better if this last one would be the default behaviour, but
for that some problems need to be fixed first:

 * It doesn't check that the versions match (but just install the newest
one available).

 * It doesn't handle alternatives (dependencies like: required_package |
alternative_package).

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
       Status: New => Triaged

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get-build-deps: improve local dependency handling without pbuilder-satisfydepends
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158108
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