dependency not met debian packaging

[irazaq]

I was able to build antimony on debian stretch. When I tried to create a debian package got the following error:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 9) desktop-file-utils

below is the full output:

dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package antimony
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 0.9.2
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution testing
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Peter Felecan peter@felecan.org
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --before-build antimony
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 9) desktop-file-utils
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

How do I resolve this?

[mkeeter]

Not sure! I'm not an expert on Debian packaging; that was contributed by @pfelecan.

If you figure it out, please open a PR to fix it.

[irazaq]

I will definitely PR you when I find a solution.

[pfelecan]

Just add the dependency in the control file.

[irazaq]

Thanks pfelecan, the dependencies are already there. I found out I just have to install the missing dependencies which I assume are installed by default and it compile now. I was using a docker container to do this based on the work of rzetterberg https://github.com/rzetterberg/antimony-docker

[tiagovaz]

Hi there, antimony has finally been accepted into Debian, so just apt install it from the official Sid suite:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/antimony