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# `build-depends-on-build-essential`

You depend on the build-essential package, which is only a metapackage depending on build tools that have to be installed in all build environments.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Relationships between source and binary packages - Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Depends-Arch, Build-Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Arch (Section 7.7) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag