Re: Build-Depends vs Depends

[Octavio Alvarez <octaldml@alvarezp.org>]

On 01/01/2017 04:07 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu> writes:
> 
>> What is the difference [between the “Build-Depends” field and the
>> “Depends” field]?
> 
> The difference is precisely that between building the package from
> source, versus using the package installed.

For example, a compiler is needed during build time, but it's not needed
to run the program so it would qualify for Build-Depends but not
for Depends.

Build-Depends is used during "apt build-dep" (used for compilation and
building the package) and Depends is used during "apt install".

Best regards.


-- 
Octavio.