Bug#127360: apt: Handling of build-dependencies when sources are from a different version
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
apt-get build-dep uses the build dependencies of the currently
installed package, not of the source package you are trying to build.
I discovered this while trying to build gnucash.
This is particularly problematic in my situation: woody system, but my
sources use sid. Also, my current gnucash is a Ximian package!
The desirable behavior here is not entirely obvious. One approach
would be to download the necessary *source* packages. Another would
be to offer to get the binary packages from the appropriate
distribution; presumably this would require appropriate entries in
sources.list (mine points only to woody for binaries at the moment).
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wheat 2.4.16 #1 Sun Dec 16 22:15:54 PST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
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