[needs-packaging] Replacement for build-essential with more manpages and helper packages
Bug #391472 reported by
Mike Heise
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| build-essential (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
It would be nice to have a package that developers could install that installed all the essential building packages as well as manpages and helper packages not explicitly needed by the build daemons
---original report---
build-essential does not include complete manpages for its libraries
Binary package hint: build-essential
Ubuntu version: 9.04
Package version: build-essential 11.4
What I expected to happen: development manpages to be included when i installed build tools
What happened instead: they weren't
Development manpages are generally fractured between a few packages (namely manpages-dev, glibc-doc and manpages-posix, there may be others). build-essential should suggest these packages for installation.
| Changed in build-essential (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote | #2 |
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: needs-packaging |
| summary: |
- build-essential does not include complete manpages for its libraries + [needs-packaging] Replacement for build-essential with more manpages and + helper packages |
| Changed in build-essential (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Low → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote | #3 |
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build-essential exists purely for a specific technical purpose, prescribed by the policy manual:
It is not necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships on
a minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile, link and
put in an Ubuntu package a standard "Hello World!" program written in
C or C++. The required packages are called _build-essential_, and an
informational list can be found in
`/
`build-
It's unfortunate that people have got into the habit of using build-essential for other things, and developing expectations of it. We should probably provide something else. The reason we haven't so far is that it becomes a bit of a grab-bag of everything, which isn't very useful either ...