How to report bug in build-deps?

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 11:59 +0200, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
> 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 :)

He'll need all of the .dev files that it needs in order to compile
it. :) Ric


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