[patch] Update README files for Debian dependencies

[Tom Brown]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:50:32AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:26:13PM +0100, Andreas Köhler wrote:
> > Hi Jerry,
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, den 30.12.2007, 14:10 -0500 schrieb Jerry Quinn:
> > > As I was resolving the dependencies I needed to build gnucash out of 
> > > svn, I updated the README files somewhat to reflect the current status 
> > > quo on Debian testing.  I tried to capture what I needed both for the 
> > > automake run as well as configuring and building.  I also updated the 
> > > Debian package version lists in README.dependencies.  I checked the 
> > > versions against stable as well, so I think it's ok.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if anything is amiss.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > I really wonder whether this type of information should only be held at
> > the GnuCash wiki as it tends to become outdated pretty easily.
> 
> I second that. It should be stored there, but... can it be scraped
> from there somehow to keep the README's up-to-date? I'm thinking of
> the poor sap with 28k dialup trying to build it and not having easy
> access to that list while building. (I know a lot of Debian users work
> off the install CD's (there's like 20+ of them) and wanting to build
> when *not* on line). It's a pretty small set of people, I'm sure, but
> if it could be done with relative ease, why not?

apt-get build-dep
is an easy way to get most of the dependencies for building from svn
on debian.
I added this tip to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
Hints for building from svn in different distributions would be more
likely to stay current on the wiki. I doubt people with svn write
access refer to them very often.

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