Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 16:33 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > 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
I thought that we should get the meta package into Debian if the DDs like the idea of it and otherwise get it only into Debian. Right, devscripts should be a direct dependency. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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