On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jules Bean wrote: > Hmm. I feel I've missed something here. How does debhelper need/use > them? YOU need them if you use debhelper in your rules file. Build-depends is a list of *all* and *every* single package you will need in order to do a full build [that are not in the build-essential list]. I have packages that build-depends on findutils because I used 'find' in the rules file, for example. > are built against the latest libraries etc.). It would be nice to have > apt-get install deps-and-build-deps-of-<foo> to get the sid versions - > is there a tool for this? Get apt 0.5 from sid. Its super-cow powers allow for apt-get build-dep. Moo. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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