Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:13:08 +0800, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:05:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>>>The tool you are looking for is "mk-build-deps" from the package "devscripts".
>>
>> So one uses mk-build-deps to create a .deb containing the build
>> dependencies as binary dependencites, put that .deb into an local
>> aptable archive, run apt-get update and apt-get install $PACKAGE.
>>
>> Am I the only one who thinks this is terribly backwards as compared to
>> hand-editing dpkg-checkbuildep's output to an apt-get install command
>> line?
>
>Both of these solutions are suboptimal, apt should know about source
>packages and build-deps. It should also be able to install source
>packages and or their dependencies and keep them installed. As a
>bonus, we could get rid of those -source packages.
And because we want to do a really really good solution, a ten year
old wishlist bug which has a patch in the BTS for three years remains
unsolved? A true wise decision which proves that we always care about
our users.
Greetings
Marc
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