On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:55:32AM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> steven@broken:~$ grep-available -s Build-Depends -F Package 'apcupsd'
> Build-Depends: 
> 
> Which means it doesn't define any. Fun.

I'm not sure what grep-available is searching, but I don't
have any Build-Depends in /var/lib/dpkg/available.

Packages don't need to define any build depends if they only use
standard sort of programs to build. I don't know if autoconf is
one of those, but its used quite often, so I guess it could be.

If you install build-essential with all the suggested packages,
you will have autoconf installed. (gcc suggests autoconf)

I wouldn't mind if apt-get had an --install-suggests option.

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