Source: debian-builder Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian QA Group Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), Package: debian-builder Architecture: all Depends: build-essential, devscripts, dpkg-dev, perl, ${misc:Depends}, Description: Rebuild Debian packages from source code This is a simple tool which is designed to allow a local administrator to rebuild individual Debian packages from their source code. . With the aid of a few included wrapper scripts this allows automatically rebuilding a package and all its dependencies. . Note: This software is not designed to enhance your installation by producing optimized binaries, however this may be achieved with the aid of companion packages such as 'pentium-builder', or 'athlon-builder'. . The prime purpose of this package is to ease the testing of compiler patches such as the Stack Smashing Protection patch available from IBM.