[Aptitude-devel] Bug#966640: build-depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) cannot be satisfied

[Askar Safin]

I found a workaround. If you need to install build dependencies for
package X, just create a fake package, which has "Depends", which are
equal to X's "Build-Depends". Then install this fake package via
aptitude.

Possibility of such workaround means that aptitude already has all
needed machinery. We just need to make aptitude to treat
"Build-Depends" in similar way to "Depends"

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Askar Safin