Bug#148879: apt violates policy, does not install build-essential files for apt-get build-dep
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > apt-get build-dep does not install build-essential packages which
> > should already be installed when any package is built,
> > causing much bogus bug reports on anything that does not
> > declare build-dependencies on packages that are already in
> > build-essential list.
>
> This is silly. Apt is not Debian-specific and it makes no sense to
> hardcode bits of Debian policy into apt. This sounds like a case
> where the documentation should be improved.
dpkg-deb(1.1)/dpkg-checkbuilddeps always makes sure build-essential is
installed.
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