Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2016-11-14 08:12:03) > I haven't yet found a way to resolve recommends to a definitive list of > package=version tuples
why do you have to supply the exact version as well? > and that would probably be undesirable anyway, so the WIP patch creates a > fake .dsc containing a Build-Depends line with the requested check > dependencies in it and passes that to apt build-dep, but unfortunately that > installs build-essential, which would be too much in situations where > build-essential isn't installed yet. > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git/commit/?h=wip/install&id=1271658cf0e143fb6da6fff96219ecb2ff42b2ed you could do it like sbuild and instead of assembling a .dsc, create a dummy binary package. Either using equivs or by manually creating DEBIAN/control and then running dpkg-deb. This would avoid the build-essential dependency. Here is how sbuild does it: http://sources.debian.net/src/sbuild/0.72.0-2/lib/Sbuild/ResolverBase.pm/#L947 Alternatively, sbuild would be happy with parsing the .dsc you already provide and pass the contents of the Build-Depends field to apt. Thanks! cheers, josch
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