The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 301bbd8a6c61fd76b86e7011d9050152d918aae2
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Feb 6 01:07:42 2009 +0200

    Remove unneeded cpio dependency from dpkg-dev
    
    dpkg-source used to call cpio to handle tar archives, but not anymore
    for a long time.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 955d76e..6f475a9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ dpkg (1.15.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Add initial C unit test suite for libdpkg.
   * Sanitize --status-fd output by replacing newlines with spaces.
     Closes: #505172
+  * Remove unneeded cpio dependency from dpkg-dev.
 
   [ Raphael Hertzog ]
   * Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps's error message when a library can't be found to
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 18ca6d3..368f18f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Package: dpkg-dev
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: all
-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.6), perl5, perl-modules, cpio (>= 2.4.2-2), bzip2, lzma,
+Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.6), perl5, perl-modules, bzip2, lzma,
  patch (>= 2.2-1), make, binutils, libtimedate-perl
 Recommends: gcc | c-compiler, build-essential
 Suggests: gnupg, debian-keyring

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