Moin, On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 04:33:43PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > Dear Debian-Mentors > > I wonder, why my "Build-Depends:" Field is ignored by dpkg-source and > dpkg-buildpackage ? I added the "Build-Depends" to my debian/control like > this: > -------------------------------8<----------------------------------- > Source: bsd-ftpd > Section: net > Priority: extra > Maintainer: Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Standards-Version: 3.1.1 > Build-Depends: libwrap0-dev [...] > If I build the package without libwrap0-dev, dpkg-buildpackage > does not complain. But the build fails (of cource). > > Did I something wrong ? looks fine. dpkg-source and -buildpackage know nothing about build-depends, this is just (AFAIU) a helper field for porters. You have to use a Build-Depends aware tool for building pacakges, like sbuild. sbuild checks for build-depends and (de)-installs packages with apt as needed. Seems I have to send my Build-Depends mail again... there was a little discusion on -devel, Roman explained how to check out sbuild.
Christian
