On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 09:51:03AM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote: > I'm wondering if the package build-essential should be put into the > control file or not. > > For example: > > Build-Depends-Indep: build-essential, flex, bison I dont think so, thats why the packages are build-essential. Sbuild takes good care of that. Read this http://www.debian.org/~cts/Build-Depends for some (outdated) info on build-depends Christian