Bug#646554: exim4: libmysqlclient-dev missing from build-deps.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2011-10-25 Jasen Betts <jasen at xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.72-6+squeeze2
> Severity: normal

> building the packages from source requires libmysqlclient-dev be
> installed. this seems to be missing from the build-deps (I had to
> install it manually) and it's absence is not detected during build
> or warned of in a meaningful way. 

> was building for arch AMD64 on an brand-new server.

libmysqlclient15-dev is listed in Build-Depends:

seumegasse:~# apt-cache showsrc exim4 | grep -E 'Version|Build-De'
Version: 4.72-6+squeeze2
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.15), po-debconf, docbook-xsl, xsltproc, lynx-cur | lynx, docbook-xml, libpcre3-dev, libldap2-dev, libpam0g-dev, libident-dev, libdb4.8-dev, libxmu-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, libx11-dev, libxaw7-dev, libpq-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libperl-dev, libgnutls-dev, libsasl2-dev

dpkg-checkbuilddeps whch is invoked by dpkg-buildpackage will wrn
about this. How did you start the builld?

cu andreas