Bug#217945: marked as done (dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential)
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From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>
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Subject: dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential
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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).
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Agreed. However, making dpkg-checkbuilddeps do the appropriate checks
> seems to be the logical solution.
No. dpkg-checkbuilddeps will not enforce debian policy. In fact, none of
dpkg should enforce policy.
And, on that note, dpkg-dev will not build-depend on build-essential either,
for the same reason.
We used to do this. But Wichert convinced me it was wrong, and the change was
backed out.
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