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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]