[Bug 391472] Re: [needs-packaging] Replacement for build-essential with more manpages and helper packages

[Mario Limonciello]

I think it would be sufficient to come up with a new binary metapackage
called "c-developer-tools" that pulled in these packages: "autoconf,
manpages-dev, doxygen, yasm, ccache, distcc, build-essential".

That should pull in a sufficient amount of documentation and tools to
help an aspiring developer get started.

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Title:
  [needs-packaging] Replacement for build-essential with more manpages
  and helper packages

Status in “build-essential” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It would be nice to have a package that developers could install that
  installed all the essential building packages as well as manpages and
  helper packages not explicitly needed by the build daemons

  ---original report---
  build-essential does not include complete manpages for its libraries

  Binary package hint: build-essential

  Ubuntu version: 9.04
  Package version: build-essential 11.4
  What I expected to happen: development manpages to be included when i installed build tools
  What happened instead: they weren't

  Development manpages are generally fractured between a few packages
  (namely manpages-dev, glibc-doc and manpages-posix, there may be
  others).  build-essential should suggest these packages for
  installation.

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