How to report bug in build-deps?

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Sun 11 Sep 2011 11:51:14 SAST, Colin Law wrote:
> On 11 September 2011 10:45, Bruce Pieterse<octoquadza at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/09/2011 01:12, Patton Echols wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/10/2011 09:16 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10 September 2011 16:41, Bruce Pieterse<octoquadza at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 10, 2011 5:20 PM, "Colin Law"<clanlaw at googlemail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When one does
>>>>>> sudo apt-get build-dep<some_app>
>>>>>> it should install all the packages to allow that app to be built.  How
>>>>>> do I report a bug in the build dependencies list for an app (there are
>>>>>> some deps missing).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do I just report it against the app itself?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google has failed me, or perhaps more accurately I have failed to
>>>>>> persuade google to help.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Colin,
>>>>>
>>>>> What application are you trying to install and what does apt-get say for
>>>>> the
>>>>> dependencies?
>>>>
>>>> I think you have misunderstood my problem.  I am not attempting to
>>>> install an app, but install the *build* dependencies for the app, and
>>>> the build dependencies have missing packages.  So I want to report
>>>> that as a bug.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am far from an expert, and can't even tell you where to look.  But I see
>>> this as a logic problem.
>>>
>>> the build-dep switch reads the<some-app>  source, finds the dependencies
>>> and installs them, right?
>>>
>>> One of two things is going on.  Either the source correctly lists the
>>> missing packages as dependencies and build-dep is missing them, or the
>>> source does not correctly list them.  It seems to me you need to figure out
>>> which.
>>>
>>> Someone with more knowledge of how such things work may give a better
>>> answer.
>>>
>> I'll be honest, I'm no expert to. lol. You can install gnucash with sudo
>> apt-get install gnucash. Is there a reason why you are building it from
>> source when it is already in repo?
>
> So that I can contribute to development of the software.
>
> Colin
>

Ah, now I get it, my apologies! Well, let me grab the source code 
myself and see if I can help out :)

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Bruce Pieterse