(CCing Nikolaus's bug.) Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes ("Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs"): > Or you can just do > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep ./
That's not available in jessie of course, but ISTM that this is the right answer for stretch. I won't upload a new dgit to stretch to change this but I think I should change this in buster. Probably we should recommend --no-install-recommends. Ian.