Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.15 So when I tell dpkg to build gdb-6.0-1, and the build dependencies aren't satisfied, it tries (and fails) anyway. Observe:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src/gdb-6.0]$ sudo apt-get build-dep gdb Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dejagnu gcj gobjc gobjc-3.3 libreadline4-dev 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 2569kB of archives. After unpacking 8442kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src/gdb-6.0]$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -nc dpkg-buildpackage: source package is gdb dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 6.0-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 debian/rules build test -r config-ml.in cd objdir && make CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O2 -g" \ CXXFLAGS="" LDFLAGS="" all info make[1]: Entering directory `/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/objdir' <snip> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/objdir/gdb' gcc -c -O2 -g -I. -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/../include/opcode -I../bfd -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/../bfd -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/../include -I../intl -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/../intl -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 -I/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/tui -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized /home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/source.c /home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/gdb/source.c:47: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [source.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/objdir/gdb' make[1]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/moise/src/gdb-6.0/objdir' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

