Package: build-essential
Version: 12.12
Severity: normal
Hello,
Nowadays, libpthread.so and such have moved from hurd-dev to
libc0.3-dev. And libc0.3-dev depends on hurd-dev nowadays anyway.
Could you drop the hurd-dev dependency as attached?
Thanks,
Samuel
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Versions of packages build-essential depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.23.7
ii g++ 4:15.2.0-5
ii gcc 4:15.2.0-5
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.42-16
ii make 4.4.1-3
build-essential recommends no packages.
build-essential suggests no packages.
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Samuel
"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
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(By Matt Welsh)
--- list.original 2026-06-24 20:44:29.685983126 +0200
+++ list 2026-06-24 20:44:41.769938420 +0200
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@
the file
`/usr/share/doc/build-essential/essential-packages-list'
-hurd-dev [hurd-i386 hurd-amd64]
- Provides libpthread.so (and other such essential components).
-
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