Package: libyaml-cpp-dev Version: 0.5.2-3 Severity: normal As the subject says, boost headers are needed to build programs against libyaml-cpp-dev, so they should be added to the list of dependencies:
/usr/include/yaml-cpp/node/ptr.h:11:32: fatal error: boost/shared_ptr.hpp: No such file or directory Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages libyaml-cpp-dev depends on: ii libyaml-cpp0.5v5 0.5.2-3 libyaml-cpp-dev recommends no packages. libyaml-cpp-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information