I agree with the submitters of #163637 and #190891 that it would be nice to have a way to determine the list of Source packages that build-depend on a given package. The wishlist bug #301041 points to a tool that figures this out using libapt-pkg-perl and then also graphs the result using dotty.
I also asked on #debian-devel and Clint mentioned his solution for the problems, <Clint> grep-available -F Build-Depends -s Package libgtk /var/lib/apt/\ lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources While those two solutions will work, I still think the ideal solution would be something like apt-cache rbuild-dep foo and as long as you were at it you could provide one for the forward depends too, apt-cache build-dep foo which would just be the build-deps part of showsrc, analogous to how depends/rdepends show info from showpkg. -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
