Bug#484291: pbuilder: should depend on dpkg-dev

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 06:24:36PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > 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 ?
> 
> I've verified that 'pbuilder' works without dpkg-dev being installed.
> 'pdebuild' does require them, but since 'pbuilder' works, users are
> given an option of not installing the recommended packages.


Yes it works. I never claimed it doesn't :-)

But as I said, how useful is generating tarballs only ? I guess it's your call here.

Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.

I guess someone installing pbuilder will probably be aiming to build packages. It's unusual that dpkg-dev is not installed in that case.


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