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. -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
