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Author pitrou
Recipients barry, ezio.melotti, pitrou, tshepang
Date 2012-02-08.15:37:09
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> >Or, rather, setup.py should be smart enough to warn about that.
> 
> It shouldn't just be limited to Debian and its derivatives.  Other platforms
> (even Linux OSes) will probably have similar issues.

The issue (having to install dpkg-dev) is specifically about Debian and
Ubuntu. I don't think we should have tons of platform-specific
instructions in the devguide, and I think that in this case setup.py
should detect that the required tool is missing (depending on the
platform, of course).
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2012-02-08 15:37:09pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, barry, ezio.melotti, tshepang
2012-02-08 15:37:09pitroulinkissue13956 messages
2012-02-08 15:37:09pitroucreate