refference to pbuilder-dist but it's not in the packaging-dev package

[Dominique Ramaekers]

Unther the headline "Getting Set Up", there is a paragraphe "Install basic packaging software". In that paragraphe it is said that the packaging-dev will install all the nesscessery packages and more.

A few lines further, there is a reference to the tool "pbuilder-dist" but this tool is not installed.

The pbuilder-dist tool is found in the package ubuntu-dev-tools. Alsow the packages bzr-builddeb and apt-file are not covered in packaging-dev.

Maybe it's a good idea to change the line:
$ sudo apt-get install packaging-dev

to:
$ sudo apt-get install packaging-dev bzr-builddeb apt-file

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

packaging-dev should install bzr-builddeb and ubuntu-dev-tools. They are not hard dependencies, but on Ubuntu Recommends are installed by default.

$ apt-cache depends packaging-dev
packaging-dev
  Depends: build-essential
  Depends: debhelper
  Depends: devscripts
    devscripts:i386
 |Depends: dput
    dput-ng
 |Depends: dput-ng
  Depends: dupload
  Depends: lintian
 |Depends: pbuilder
 |Depends: cowbuilder
  Depends: sbuild
  Depends: quilt
  Suggests: cvs-buildpackage
  Suggests: mercurial-buildpackage
  Suggests: <kubuntu-dev-tools>
  Recommends: apt-file
  Recommends: autoconf
  Recommends: automake
  Recommends: autopkgtest
  Recommends: autotools-dev
  Recommends: bzr-builddeb
  Recommends: cdbs
  Recommends: cmake
    cmake:i386
  Recommends: debian-policy
 |Recommends: developers-reference
 |Recommends: developers-reference-de
 |Recommends: developers-reference-fr
  Recommends: developers-reference-ja
  Recommends: dh-autoreconf
  Recommends: dh-make
  Recommends: git-buildpackage
  Recommends: gnome-pkg-tools
  Recommends: gnupg
    gnupg:i386
  Recommends: libtool
    libtool:i386
  Recommends: piuparts
  Recommends: pkg-kde-tools
  Recommends: svn-buildpackage
  Recommends: lptools
  Recommends: ubuntu-dev-tools
  Recommends: ubuntu-packaging-guide

[Dominique Ramaekers (dominique-ramaekers)]

You are right, I've checked. I'm following your Guide on a virtual server rented from a VPS-provider. Strangely enough, they install ubuntu with "APT::Get::Install-Recommends "false";" in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00InstallRecomends ... I'll ask them why they do that.

I've checked it on my desktop system and the required packages will be included on installing "packaging-dev"

Sorry about the false bug-report...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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