Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file
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.
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bye,
pabs
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