Just put the dep in makedepends, namcap only checks for runtime deps, can't detect build dep AFAIK. -- Maxime On Mar 9, 2013 12:28 AM, "Lieven Moors" <lievenmoors@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I was building a package using makechrootpkg, and the build was > failing because a mandatory dependency was missing. But when I add > the dependency, namcap complains that it is not needed. > > I was wondering how namcap checks dependencies, and what the particular > shortcommings are of namcap when detecting dependencies. > I was also wondering if there could be a possibility that namcap is right, > and that something else goes wrong while doing the chroot-build. > > I would be grateful if somebody could enlighten me a little in this... > > Greetings, > > lieven >