Control: tag -1 + confirmed

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:17:21 +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:

> dkms depends on "make | build-essential | dpkg-dev" but /usr/sbin/dkms call
> explicitly dpkg-architecture in make_debian()
> 
> As example, if dpkg-dev isn't installed you can't build virtualbox-guest-dkms 
> modules.

I'd rather go for Recommends; if I'm reading the code correctly,
make_debian() is only called for the mkdeb / mkbmdeb / mkdsc cases.

But yes, dpkg-dev is needed in Depends or Recommends …


Cheers,
gregor, from the Bern BSP

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