Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> dpkg-dev should Depends: build-essential, or at the very least, >> Recommends: it; in the latter case, dpkg-checkbuilddeps should check >> for the presence of the package. Otherwise, people not running >> buildd's may well discover that they can't build their packages (and >> I've had some interesting bug reports against devscripts which arise >> from this bug). > > This would be equivalent to making dpkg-dev to depend on > > libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 3:3.3), g++ (>= 3:3.3) > > which are the dependencies of build-essential which are not already satisfied > by dpkg-dev itself or its own dependencies.
Agreed. However, making dpkg-checkbuilddeps do the appropriate checks seems to be the logical solution. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
