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 ? -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org
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