[Distutils] An observation on how system packagers and developers can be friends

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:43:38AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> Op 29-10-10 00:49, Glyph Lefkowitz schreef:
> >On Debian, there's a handy shortcut: 'apt-get build-dep', which will
> >install the build dependencies for any given source package. So 'apt-get
> >build-dep python' will get you all set to build Python.
> 
> I did not know that one yet, thanks.  I tried that on Ubuntu Jaunty.

Jaunty went end-of-life a month ago, time to upgrade?

> It returns rather a lot:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep --dry-run python
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
...
> 0 upgraded, 83 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> Somehow I doubt that I need TeX to build python.

Why is it a build-dep, anyway?  Python's documentation sources are now
ReStructuredText, not LaTeX -- since 2.6, I think.  I don't believe
there are PDFs shipped in python2.x-doc packages.  Is it an obsolete
build dependency from earlier times?

Marius Gedminas
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