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Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
In this guide
https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/#build-dependencies
it suggests lib-mpdec but its not available in debian 12? Perhaps its outdated package?
root@v18606:~/cpython# sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb lcov pkg-config \
libbz2-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libgdbm-compat-dev liblzma-dev \
libncurses5-dev libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev \
lzma lzma-dev tk-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libmpdec-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libreadline-dev' instead of 'libreadline6-dev'
E: Unable to locate package libmpdec-dev
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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