Hi David,

It's not necessary to add build-essential to the build-deps list.

Add the APT repository to your sources.list and download the sources of
netman:

# apt-get source netman

Now go to the parent directory of the sources, uninstall build-essential
and run:

# dpkg-checkbuilddeps

You will get the following message:

# dpkg-checkbuilddeps
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: build-essential:native

Aitor.


On 10/06/2015 07:33 PM, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
> I built from latest git with dpkg-buildpackage, using the debian.tar.xz available with the netman
> deb package. BTW the build-deps list don't include build-essential, which
> was necessary although everything else was straightforward. I was a
> bit disturbed that they were around 900MB to install.