From 26c578c9cc648775274197919d94e4a3e4d55c53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Yardley <wby@axs.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:07:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] make apt a soft dependency per styleguide (resolves #1086)

---
 README.md     | 1 +
 metadata.json | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 17ab69fc5..3003177e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This module manages NGINX configuration.
 ### Requirements
 
 * Puppet 4.6.1 or later.  Puppet 3 was supported up until release 0.6.0.
+* apt is now a soft dependency. If your system uses apt, you'll need to configure an appropriate version of the apt module.
 
 ### Additional Documentation
 
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
index 051ddc243..30659a723 100644
--- a/metadata.json
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@
       "name": "puppetlabs/stdlib",
       "version_requirement": ">= 4.13.1 <5.0.0"
     },
-    {
-      "name": "puppetlabs/apt",
-      "version_requirement": ">= 2.1.0 <3.0.0"
-    },
     {
       "name": "puppetlabs/concat",
       "version_requirement": ">= 3.0.0 <4.0.0"