It was only needed so dh_shlibdeps and dh_strip, which are no longer run
during build.
* dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshelibs, or dh_strip
for the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
- * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db, to ease bootstrapping.
+ * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:18:01 -0400
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: po4a (>= 0.24), file (>= 3.23), perl-base (>= 5.10)
+Build-Depends: po4a (>= 0.24), perl-base (>= 5.10)
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=debhelper/debhelper.git;a=summary