On 02-Apr-2001 Carlos Laviola wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging zclock, a clock applet for GNOME, and it depends on a lot of > gnome libs and headers to compile. While I was able to determine a few of the > -dev packages I must declare as build-dependencies, I am sure that I'm > missing > some. What do you do to ensure that your packages aren't missing > build-depends? > best thing is to build in a chroot. There is a package called debootstrap which will help with this.