Bug#217945: dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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).
This would be equivalent to making dpkg-dev to depend on
libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 3:3.3), g++ (>= 3:3.3)
which are the dependencies of build-essential which are not already satisfied
by dpkg-dev itself or its own dependencies.
I would object to the fact that you are forced to install g++ if you want
to install dpkg-dev.
OTOH, people not running buildd's should know the exact meaning of
Build-Depends: anyway, namely, you need those packages in addition to
the build-essential ones.
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