Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.14.18
Severity: important
I build packages of shell and perl scripts using dpkg-buildpackage.
Until recently this did not require any of g++, g++-4.2, gcc, gcc-4.2,
libstdc++6-4.2-dev to be installed but now when I run dpkg-buildpackage
I get:
...
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: build-essential
...
My Build-Depends-Indep: and Depends: lines contain simply the stuff
I will use:
lasagne$ grep Depends control
Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.0.0), ade
Depends: perl, bash, apt-utils, dpkg-dev
lasagne$
1) add -d to my calls to dpkg-buildpackage, or
2) install build-essential
Both are unreasonable: either I must sacrifice dpkg-buildpackage's
dependency checking abilities, or I must bloat my system with some
large packages which will not be used at all.
In changelog.Debian.gz I see:
* Add build-essential as an implicit Build-Depends in
dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
Closes: #402901
which is clearly the cause of the problem. The assumption in
#402901's bug report (no package should need to state a dependency on
build-essential, since that dependency is implicit) is, as packaging
shell scripts proves, false.
Further, the package description for build-essential even confirms that
it should not be a prerequisite for dpkg-buildpackage to function
correct:
... Moreover this package is not required for building Debian
packages.
dpkg-buildpackage's run-time dependency on build-essential should be backed
out.
If I can be of further assistance (trying to build packages with modified
dpkg-dev), then let me know. Thanks.
Alexis Huxley
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.5-0.1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii cpio 2.9-13 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii dpkg 1.14.18 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii lzma 4.43-12 Compression method of 7z format in
ii make 3.81-4 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-12 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
pn build-essential <none> (no description available)
ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.2-19 The GNU C compiler
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