Please provide a script to setup build-deps for builds from bzr when running Ubuntu

I would think this should rather be listed in a README or INSTALL file. You shouldn't be relying on apt to know how to build something from VCS and if it's not needed for actual building I don't think it should be added to build deps.

Perhaps add the installation of the dep into a script, call it 'getdep.sh' or some such. surely there is a standard for this other than simply documenting it (which still delays the process of getting into development)

Martin, I can't think of any standard way to do this; the closest I know of from other Gtk+-ish software to declare such things in a machine readable format are jhbuild modulesets. Apparently, netbook-launcher is listed in the gnome-2.xy.modules jhbuildrcs.

I don't think jhbuild can install the proper build-dep packages for you, but it could at least build them from source for you.

I'm subscribed to the UNR bugs which is how I saw these bugs, but I just came across:
http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/failure-to-develop-netbook-launcher/

FYI, package build-deps are correct in this case and shouldn't pull in gnome-common and gtk-doc-tools; these are not needed when building the package since it's built from a tarball and we don't need to run autotools stuff.