effect of checkinstall debs

[Patton Echols]

I wanted to experiment with darktable 
(http://darktable.sourceforge.net/)  The only .deb on the website is for 
64bit.  I was able to compile from the source after tracking down an 
number of -dev libraries.  I used checkinstall to create a deb and have 
a working installation.

Here is the question:

If I provide that deb to other users, will dpkg resolve dependencies?  I 
assume the foo-dev libraries are only needed for compiling.  But if dpkg 
will not resolve conflicts, is there some way that I can find out the 
dependencies so that users can know what they are?

Thanks,

--PE