Libmpec-dev not available on debian 12 when building Python #119114
Description
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 Perhaps its outdated package?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
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response