quilt's annotate command generates ed-style patches to create its output. The patch command from diffutils doesn't know how to apply them itself, and doesn't depend on ed as it's such a rare thing to want to do these days ;) Thus, it'd be nice if quilt depended on ed as well as diffstat/diffutils, to allow for this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Since ed is not really a dependency (at least I could not find a place where ed is invoked -- please point it out and reopen this if I am wrong), it doesn't really make sense to add it. As far as diffstat/diffutils, diffstat is already a listed dependency and diffutils is an implicit dependency (it's in the 'system' target).
I know it already depends on diffstat (and indirectly diffutils). ed is not directly anywhere, but /usr/share/quilt/annotate invokes patch on line 154, feeding it ed-format diff output on stdin. The patch manpage states that ed-format patches are simply piped to ed, but in practise it promptly fails as ed is not installed. quilt's annotate output is the first place I've seen ed-format patches in a good six, seven years.. Yes, it's not a direct dependency, but since ed support is an optional feature in patch, there's nothing else that's gonna install it.. and it took me a while to figure out why no line annotations were being inserted (as my editor was helpfully discarding quilt's stderr and only showing me the stdout, which, if patch can't do the operation, is just a copy of the input file with no annotations). So, err, close this again if you want, I guess, but I do think ed should be included as a dependency of either quilt or diffutils, and if it's added to the latter I can imagine plenty of people will promptly bitch about ed appearing on their systems, as they have absolutely no use for it ;)
Ok the way you worded it this time makes much more sense. Deps have been updated in cvs.
