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

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:28:11PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 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.


I can say that debhelper is also needed because pdebuild does a clean in the beginning

I'm not really sure about the Recommends Vs. Depends part.

in theory, pbuilder can be used to build base tarballs which needs neither debhelper nor dpkg-dev
but how useful are they by themselves ?

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