Re: build-depends on a _source_ package ?

[Benoît Rouits <brouits@free.fr>]

Thank you Christian for your clear explanation.
I think i only need the headers files, but i will check
this before to file a bug to the qtcreator package, so.

Thankfully,
 Benoît

Le 13/06/2017 à 08:54, Christian Seiler a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 06/12/2017 11:05 PM, Benoît Rouits wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Do you need the entire source of Qt Creator or just some header files?
>
> In either case, you can only build-depend on binary packages, so that
> you will need to ask the Qt Creator people to provide an additional
> package for you.
>
> If you only need header files, you should ask them to provide a
> -dev package with the headers (and potentially .so libraries). If you
> need the entire source tree, then you should ask them to provide a
> -source package (see e.g. gcc-6-source, glibc-source, linux-source for
> examples of this already in the archive) that puts the entire source
> tree into /usr/src.
>
> Note that you shouldn't open a bug on WNPP, but rather a bug on the
> qtcreator package itself, severity wishlist, requesting this.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Christian