Comment 3 for bug 243550

I've tested the patch on Intrepid and it doesn't work.

Here are the results with a patched /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/cache.py:

With installing Recommends disabled in the host system:
$ gdebi --quiet --root /var/cache/pbuilder/build/24283/ --apt-line libgnupg-interface-perl_0.36-1ubuntu1.dsc
debhelper bsdmainutils gettext libmagic1 file libclass-methodmaker-perl groff-base intltool-debian man-db po-debconf html2text gettext-base

Now with installing Recommends enabled:
$ gdebi --quiet --root /var/cache/pbuilder/build/24283/ --apt-line libgnupg-interface-perl_0.36-1ubuntu1.dsc
debhelper curl bsdmainutils libio-compress-base-perl gettext libcurl3 libsys-hostname-long-perl libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libmagic1 libcompress-zlib-perl libmail-sendmail-perl file libclass-methodmaker-perl groff-base intltool-debian man-db po-debconf html2text gettext-base

(Installing Recommends is disabled inside the pbuilder).