On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 17:25 -0300 schrieb Fernando Lemos: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > A few days ago, we had a discussion in Ubuntu about a packaging-dev meta >> > package. The problem is that users have to install a bunch of packages >> > if they want to dive into packaging. Even some packagers get annoyed >> > when they need to turn a newly installed system into a packaging >> > environment. The solution would be a meta package that depends on the >> > commonly used packages for packaging. >> >> Isn't apt-get build-dep enough? Users can always use equivs for >> something more specific. > > apt-get build-dep gets the build dependency for a specific package, but > it wont give you devscripts for example.
I didn't realise you were going to send a mail to debian-devel too (thought it'd just be ubuntu-devel), so I guess that'd mean make devscripts a direct Rec if it ends up in Debian, because at the moment it was being accounted for as a dependency of u-d-t -- Mackenzie Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTikq-HZj0-1FhDX6oCVre=z0sna...@mail.gmail.com
