Stephen Langasek wrote: > I'm taking on the packaging of a library that has a build-time dependency on > the dev package from another library. Do any of the dpkg-dev or debhelper > tools check for this line in the control file? I've poked around a bit in > the source code, but haven't found what I'm looking for; even though the > line is there in the control file, the first thing to complain about its > absence is ./configure when it errors out. Is there something I can put in > debian/rules that will catch this earlier in the build process, or is the > line currently only useful to the autobuilders?
I wrote a utility the other day that can check build dependancies for you. It may or may not be included in a future version of dpkg. Currently, you can get it at http://cvs.kitenet.net/joey-cvs/bin/dpkg-checkbuild -- see shy jo
