Bug#958414: Latest equivs version 2.3.0 breaks mk-build-deps

[Johannes Schauer]

Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2020-05-26 15:56:04)
> Yes, installing build-essential manually has been the work-around I've
> been using. So that is now the permanent solution?

No, I think that now that equivs always uses dpkg-buildpackage instead of
manually invoking debian/rules it *must* depend on build-essential because
unless you tell dpkg-buildpackage to skip checking build dependencies, the
build-essential packages is required due to its call to dpkg-checkbuilddeps.

So as a workaround you could either:

 - install packages with recommends enabled (this will install build-essential
   because dpkg-dev recommends it)
 - or install build-essential manually

But the long-term solution is probably to add build-essential to the Depends of
equivs.
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