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Re: packaging-dev meta package



Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 16:33 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 17:25 -0300 schrieb Fernando Lemos:
> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > A few days ago, we had a discussion in Ubuntu about a packaging-dev meta
> >> > package. The problem is that users have to install a bunch of packages
> >> > if they want to dive into packaging. Even some packagers get annoyed
> >> > when they need to turn a newly installed system into a packaging
> >> > environment. The solution would be a meta package that depends on the
> >> > commonly used packages for packaging.
> >>
> >> Isn't apt-get build-dep enough? Users can always use equivs for
> >> something more specific.
> >
> > apt-get build-dep gets the build dependency for a specific package, but
> > it wont give you devscripts for example.
> 
> I didn't realise you were going to send a mail to debian-devel too
> (thought it'd just be ubuntu-devel), so I guess that'd mean make
> devscripts a direct Rec if it ends up in Debian, because at the moment
> it was being accounted for as a dependency of u-d-t

I thought that we should get the meta package into Debian if the DDs
like the idea of it and otherwise get it only into Debian.

Right, devscripts should be a direct dependency.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

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