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Re: Can I autogen Build-Depends like I can Depends, with shlibs?



On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:43:00AM -0800, Number Six wrote:
> This is more of a -user question, but only devs would know:

That means it's for debian-mentors. Redirecting.

> My dh_make -generated debian/control and debian/rules uses dh_shlibdeps 
> to automatically generate the Depends: line, which rocks.
> 
> Do I have to manually specify the Build-Depends line, or can it be 
> automatically generated as well?

You have to manually specify it based on your extensive knowledge of the
package you're maintaining. dpkg-genbuilddeps can help with this,
although you still need to apply thought to the output.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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