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

[Junichi Uekawa]

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.


regards,
	junichi
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