-dev dependencies when building debs from source?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

Hello.

 I have built console-apt and gnome-apt from source here, because I
 needed the debs (and that seemed much easier to me than browsing
 ftp.debian.org -- besides that, I like to compile things... :)

 Anyway... I found that apt doesn't seem to know about dependencies
 related to -dev packages... The build of console-apt failed once, and
 that of gnome-apt failed twice, I think, because of these
 dependencies. And all I had were missing header files, so I had to
 guess in which -dev packages they would be. (It wasn't difficult this
 time, but I remember having some difficulties in the past with some
 other package).

 Anyway... Did I miss something? Is there a way to know what these
 dependencies are, or do we have to guess? I thought that, at least
 when called when the -b option, apt should download the -dev ffiles
 that I needed...

 (I understand that if this is really the way it works, it may be a
  lot of work to change it, since information aboit building
  dependencies would have to be added to packages)

Thanks,
J.

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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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