[ gpsdrive ] svn insall questions

[chris h]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:18:02 Andreas Putzo wrote:

> It would if the dependencies of the binary package were sane.
> ${shlibs:Depends} should take care of all of the library dependencies.

Sorry for being a total nube at this but Im an old suse users ala 5.1 and this 
debian thing ala ubuntu still has me befuzzelled. 

If you have the time could you explain the above sentence, specifically the 
command  ${shlibs:Depends} and its usage should it be relevant to the 
discussion. 

> Removing the lib* dependencies from the control file would certainly
> help building the package from source.
> 'apt-get build-dep gpsdrive' installs all packages needed to build gpsdrive
> btw.

Just tried that and all it installed was the following:

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chris123 at ubuntu:~/gpsdrive_build$ sudo apt-get build-dep gpsdrive
[sudo] password for chris123:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debhelper html2text intltool-debian po-debconf
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Perhaps there is something I'm issing or not understanding?

regards and thanks

/ch