Bug#217945: dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.16
(This has come up before, bug#118420, which was closed with dpkg 1.10.
However, the bug is again present in 1.10.16.)
dpkg-dev should Depends: build-essential, or at the very least,
Recommends: it; in the latter case, dpkg-checkbuilddeps should check
for the presence of the package. Otherwise, people not running
buildd's may well discover that they can't build their packages (and
I've had some interesting bug reports against devscripts which arise
from this bug).
Julian
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