Bug#484291: pbuilder: should depend on dpkg-dev

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Tue Jun 3 14:28:11 UTC 2008


Hi,

> using pdebuild without installing dpkg-dev doesn't work:
> W: /home/mohammed/.pbuilderrc does not exist
> /usr/bin/pdebuild: line 32: dpkg-parsechangelog: command not found
> /usr/bin/pdebuild: line 33: dpkg-parsechangelog: command not found
> /usr/bin/pdebuild: line 34: dpkg-architecture: command not found
> 
> Maybe it should be in Recommends not in Depends ?

If you had installed the recommended devscripts, it would have been
pulled in as one of the dependencies.

So the question is whether it should be depended upon or not, instead
of recommending.


regards,
	junichi
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