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

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:00:13 +0200
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> wrote:

> 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.

Then it should document such, because there are quite a few people 
filing silly bugs, like "missing build-depends on g++"


regards,
	junichi


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