Bug#217945: dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
>
>> 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.
Agreed. However, making dpkg-checkbuilddeps do the appropriate checks
seems to be the logical solution.
Cheers,
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