Hi,
James Morrison wrote back in 2005:
> Package: apt-rdepends
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Currently apt-redepends --reverse --build-depends FOO gives the following
> error:
> E: Reverse build-dependencies are not supported
>
> It would be great if this worked.
There is a script called build-rdeps in the package devscripts since
February 2008 which does that job.
Alec Berryman wrote back in 2006:
> I also miss this feature in apt-rdepends and asked around today on
> #debian-devel to see if there is an alternate solution. I was provided
> with the following shell function:
>
> apt-rbdepends () {
> grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends "$1" -s Package
> /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Sources
> }
That function is even more handy if you add some "| sort -u | awk '{print $2}'".
:-)
It especially offers something build-rdeps can't do (yet, see
http://bugs.debian.org/584882): Print just packages names so you use
awk, etc. to modify the list, etc.
> I didn't see that this had been documented anywhere, and I figured that
> people might look here.
Was indeed a good idea!
I'll modify apt-rdepends so that it will either point to or call
build-rdeps and close this bug afterwards.
Regards, Axel
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