Bug#148879: apt violates policy, does not install build-essential files for apt-get build-dep

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> apt-get build-dep does not install build-essential packages which
> should already be installed when any package is built,
> causing much bogus bug reports on anything that does not 
> declare build-dependencies on packages that are already in 
> build-essential list.

This is silly. Apt is not Debian-specific and it makes no sense to
hardcode bits of Debian policy into apt. This sounds like a case
where the documentation should be improved.

Wichert.

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