Re: Problem with package build-depends against libpcap-dev - is this a bug?

[Adeodato Simó <dato@the-barrel.org>]

* Frank Küster [Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:23:53 +0100]:

> Roy Hills <royhills@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm having problems building nmap and xprobe from source because of
> > build-depends on libpcap-dev.  I need to build these two packages from
> > source because I have local patches that I want to apply to the source
> > code before it's compiled.

> You'd make me happier if you'd wrap your lines at a sensible length,
> like 75, instead of letting me do it...

  (FWIW, Roy's mail came in multipart/alternative text/plain and
  text/html. The text/plain version had proper line wrapping. You MUA
  should be configurable to prefer text/plain over text/html.

  HTH,)

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