build-depends on a _source_ package ?

[Benoît Rouits <brouits@free.fr>]

Hello dear mentors,

This must be a frequently asked question over the years, sorry:

I built recently a binary package of a specific plugin for qtcreator,
on Debian Stretch, but this requires the source (package) of qtcreator
in order to build. As Debian Stretch has no qtcreator-dev, i had to
apt-get source qtcreator.

I don't know how to automate build dependency to a _source_ package,
since the -dev does not (or seems not to) exist, at least in
Stretch.

Is there a solution ? Should i file a bug on WNPP to ask for a
qtcreator-dev package in order to have qtcreator source installed in
/usr/src ?

Thank you for your advices,
 Benoît

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