Re: Helmut Grohne 2015-12-01 <[🔎] 20151201054316.GA7194@alf.mars> > I immediately went ahead and tried the "apt-get build-dep > path/to/source" feature now available in unstable. It worked well for a > fair number of packages but somehow it broke on libxdmcp. It installs > its B-D just fine, except that dpkg-checkbuilddeps didn't agree with > that. The latter claimed xmlto and w3m to be missing. Looking into the > debian/control file of libxdmcp, one can see a comment (a line starting > with a "#") in the middle of the Build-Depends field. The packages xmlto > and w3m appear after that comment. So my guess is that apt treats this > comment as the end of Build-Depends while dpkg doesn't. I think dpkg is > right here and hope you agree. I can confirm the "doesn't read B-D after a comment line" analysis. Removing the comment made apt-get build-dep ./ work. Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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