anyone got working "straw" packages for Hoary?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:28:28PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
>BTW one possible thing that might be worth noting as a "distro thing"
>rather than a single-package thing -- I found when I was attempting to
>build straw 0.25.1 that there were a lot of dependency packages
>required, and it was quite tricky to determine what the apt package's
>name would be, from the requested Python package's name.  in other
>words, it's not like perl, where a request for Mail::Audit means that
>you need to install libmail-audit-perl -- which, while obscure, is at
>least logical.
>
>Instead, to resolve a request for the python package "GObject", I had
>to go grepping through apt-cache search looking for
>GNOME/GTK+/glib-related python packages, and install a few "-dev" ones.
>This probably wouldn't have been an issue with a working apt-gettable
>package of course, but to a newbie at building python apps, it was
>quite tricky.
>
>I'm not quite sure what can be done here, since I think most of these
>are coming via universe, and I don't yet know what Ubuntu's policy is
>on renaming debian packages in Ubuntu.   But if possible, it might help
>if some "pseudo-packages" are created using something like the perl
>convention, which simply result in installing the correctly-named
>"python-foo-dev" package -- similar to how the ubuntu-calendar package
>works?  that, in my opinion, would help...

Wouldn't it be good to report missing build dependencies as a bug?

A quick look at the Build-Depends: in the source package compared to the
Depends: of the binary package suggests that the latter can be used as a
clue to improve on the former.

/M

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