Index: van/pydeb/tests/extras.txt
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--- van/pydeb/tests/extras.txt	(revision 115616)
+++ van/pydeb/tests/extras.txt	(working copy)
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
 The basic case: package depends directly on all extra dependencies
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-zope.component has a 'zcml' extra, we should check that by the the dependencies
-of this extra are shown in the depends and provides line:
+zope.component has a 'zcml' extra, we should check that all the dependencies
+of this extra are shown in the depends line:
   
     >>> runit('van-pydeb depends --egg-info %s' % zope_component)
-    python-pkg-resources, python-z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc, python-zodb, python-zope, python-zope.configuration, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security, python-zope.testing
+    python-pkg-resources, python-z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc, python-zodb, python-zope.configuration, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security, python-zope.testing
 
 We can have create a provides line for all extras:
 
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@
 Moving an extra's dependencies into "Suggests:"
 -----------------------------------------------
 
-We notice that the "docs" dependency us not a hard one and decide to exclude it
+We notice that the "docs" dependency is not a hard one and decide to exclude it
 (it goes into Suggests:):
 
     >>> runit('van-pydeb depends --egg-info %s --exclude-extra docs' % zope_component)
-    python-pkg-resources, python-zodb, python-zope, python-zope.configuration, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security, python-zope.testing
+    python-pkg-resources, python-zodb, python-zope.configuration, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security, python-zope.testing
 
 We could also exclude it from the "provides" list:
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 Now we decide to move the 'zcml' extra to it's own metapackage, thus we need to separate out it's dependencies:
 
     >>> runit('van-pydeb depends --egg-info %s --exclude-extra docs --exclude-extra zcml' % zope_component)
-    python-pkg-resources, python-zodb, python-zope, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.testing
+    python-pkg-resources, python-zodb, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.testing
     >>> runit('van-pydeb depends --egg-info %s --extra zcml' % zope_component)
     python-zope.configuration, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security
 
@@ -79,4 +79,4 @@
 The --override-bdep command line option can be used to override mappings of binary dependencies.
 
     >>> runit('van-pydeb depends --egg-info %s --exclude-extra docs --override-bdep "setuptools python-setuptools" --override-bdep "ZODB3 python-zodb3"' % zope_component)
-    python-setuptools, python-zodb3, python-zope, python-zope.configuration, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security, python-zope.testing
+    python-setuptools, python-zodb3, python-zope.configuration, python-zope.event, python-zope.hookable, python-zope.i18nmessageid, python-zope.interface, python-zope.location, python-zope.proxy, python-zope.security, python-zope.testing
Index: van/pydeb/__init__.py
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--- van/pydeb/__init__.py	(revision 115616)
+++ van/pydeb/__init__.py	(working copy)
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
         >>> here = os.path.dirname(__file__)
         >>> ex1 = os.path.join(here, 'tests', 'dummy.foo.egg-info')
         >>> exitcode = main(['bin', 'depends', '--egg-info', ex1])
-        python-bar (<< 0.3~c~pre1), python-dummy, python-foo (>> 0.1), python-foobar
+        python-bar (<< 0.3~c~pre1), python-foo (>> 0.1), python-foobar
         >>> exitcode
         0
     """
@@ -285,16 +285,6 @@
                     pydeps.add('%s (%s %s)' % (pkg, op, dpkg_version))
             else:
                 pydeps.add(pkg)
-    # Let's depend on the namespace pacakges as well.
-    # this is a pretty ugly way to get __init__.py into the namespace packages
-    # which seems to be necessary.
-    # though testing it out on ubuntu gutsy said it wasnt, it was on Debian etch
-    #
-    # Perhaps we could remove this a bit later
-    namespace_pkgs = dist._get_metadata('namespace_packages.txt')
-    for pkg in namespace_pkgs:
-        bin_pkg = py_to_bin(pkg)
-        pydeps.add(bin_pkg)
     if extras is not None:
         # only give the dependencies of the metapackage
         pydeps = pydeps - _get_debian_dependencies(file, exclude_extras=dist.extras)
Index: CHANGES.txt
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--- CHANGES.txt	(revision 115616)
+++ CHANGES.txt	(working copy)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 1.3.3 (unreleased)
 ------------------
 
-* None yet.
+* No longer add namespace packages to depends (LP: #619294).
 
 1.3.2 (2010-06-22)
 ------------------