From 9690c4adb71e0fc7d00fea24b49ba944f913f4f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 06:39:16 -0300
Subject: document dependence on dpkg-deb

---
 deb-view.el      | 8 ++------
 debian-el.texi   | 4 +---
 debian/changelog | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deb-view.el b/deb-view.el
index 6d6515b..6223258 100644
--- a/deb-view.el
+++ b/deb-view.el
@@ -48,14 +48,8 @@
 
 ;; Required programs: ar, gzip.
 ;; Optionally required programs: nroff for formatting man pages.
-;; Optionally required programs: dpkg-deb for old-style binary .deb files.
 ;; Optionally required programs: w3-mode for viewing HTML pages.
 
-;; For new-style .deb files (2.0), dpkg-deb isn't used. Therefore
-;; deb-view should work on any platform with the ar command, although
-;; "ar -p" doesn't seem to work for .deb files on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5.
-;; It works on Solaris 2.6, SGI's IRIX 6.1 and 6.2, and Linux, of course.
-
 ;; Old-style .deb files require the dpkg-deb program. I don't know how to
 ;; extract control.tar.gz from these deb files, so you only get to see
 ;; the package control file, but nothing else such as the install scripts.
@@ -63,6 +57,8 @@
 ;; The data file is still viewable thanks to the "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile"
 ;; option.
 
+;; For new-style .deb files (2.0), dpkg-deb is now used as well.
+
 ;;; Installation:
 
 ;; 1) Quick test to see if you like deb-view.
diff --git a/debian-el.texi b/debian-el.texi
index 37b53c6..adac82f 100644
--- a/debian-el.texi
+++ b/debian-el.texi
@@ -222,13 +222,11 @@ tar-mode. See tar-mode for info.
 @table @samp
 @item nroff
 for formatting man pages.
-@item dpkg-deb
-for old-style binary .deb files.
 @item w3-mode
 for viewing HTML pages.
 @end table
 
-For new-style .deb files (2.0), dpkg-deb isn't used.
+@strong{Note:} Since version 37.3, dpkg-deb is required.
 
 @menu
 * deb-view configuration::      
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 043d2e4..e6759db 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ debian-el (37.4) experimental; urgency=medium
   * Add missing depends on xz-utils; this was previously a Pre-Depends
     when this package was built from emacs-goodies-el but it doesn't need
     to be anymore.
+  * Update documentation for deb-view to note dependence on dpkg-deb
 
- -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:21:57 -0300
+ -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:37:19 -0300
 
 debian-el (37.3) experimental; urgency=medium
 
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