Bug#127360: apt: Handling of build-dependencies when sources are from a different version
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Ross Boylan wrote:
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> > 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.
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> What? Installed packages don't have build dependencies.
Gee, seems like there is a mis-communication here.
What Ross is saying, is that when running apt-get build-dep, apt looks at the
installed version of a package, then fetches the build-deps for the source
package with the same version. It does this even if there is a newer source
version available.
> You have to have things configured to get the result you want, binary
> packages always come from the configured binary sources, as this is what
> most people actually want.
I have no idea what you are saying here.
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