Bug#486492: gcc is not a useful dependency of pbuilder

Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcdubacq1 at free.fr
Mon Jun 16 13:18:40 UTC 2008


Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.181
Severity: normal

It looks like pbuilder has gcc as a dependency. This looks quite
unreasonable. dpkg-architecture no longer uses gcc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.2      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     6.10-6     The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.29       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gcc                           4:4.3.0-8  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.11.3-1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  cowdancer                     0.47       Copy-on-write directory tree utili
pn  devscripts                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  fakeroot                      1.9.5      Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.6.9p15-2 Provide limited super user privile

-- debconf information:
  pbuilder/nomirror:
  pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://cdn.debian.net/debian
  pbuilder/rewrite: false





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