How do I get waf onto Debian testing?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:42:31PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Stefan (metze) Metzmacher (metze at samba.org):
> > Hi Richard,
> > 
> > > For various reasons I have installed Debian testing but it seems not
> > > to have waf.
> > > 
> > > How do I get waf onto Debian testing so I can build Samba master?
> > 
> > waf comes from buildtools/wafadmin/ not from the system.
> > 
> > 'apt-get build-dep samba4' is all you need
> > 'python and python-dev' are the most inportant packages.
> Another option is also patiently waiting that we manage to complete
> the current work in progress that's meant to get a samba package in
> Debian that will be 4.0.5. We're getting closer and closer, thanks to
> a great work by Andrew Bartlett and Ico de Decker (which we aim at
> completing this week during SambaXP).
I think Richard is trying to build and patch Samba, in which case "apt-get
build-dep samba4" is indeed the best command to run.

Using a packaged version of waf might work but is probably a bad idea.

Cheers,

Jelmer