Unnecessary dependency on debhelper

[avdd]

Any reason why a file format library depends on a development tool?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: libvformat1 1.13-4
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libvformat
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-server i686

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libvformat - 1.13-5

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libvformat (1.13-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * QA upload.
  * debian/copyright:
    + include copyright assignment.
    + point to a versioned license.
  * debian/control:
    + remove debhelper dependency from the runtime binary package.
      (Closes: #363569, LP: #441893)
    + build-depend on autotools-dev.
    + add ${misc:Depends} to all binary packages.
    + set maintainer to Debian QA Group.
    + make dependency to triggers smoother with install-info.
    + improve short descriptions a little.
    + add Homepage field, so that we don't loose track of upstream.
    + tighten the dependency between -dev and lib package.
    + update Standards-Version to 3.8.3.
  * delete trailing whitespace from this log.
  * debian/rules:
    + remove DH_COMPAT.
    + don't ignore make clean error.
    + remove some commented lines.
    + touch build-stamp, as it is not declared as a PHONY target.
    + link config.{sub,guess} in the configuration step.
    + don't incorrectly copy config.{sub,guess} from autotools-dev.
    + improve support for cross-compilation.
  * debian/compat:
    + add, with 5.
  * debian/watch:
    + include, with redirector to sourceforge.
  * doc/libvformat.texi: added info dirsection (Closes: #528907).
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