There is a better script on devscripts, called "build-rdeps", so we should switch to it. However, it needs some work so that it works in Ubuntu, which is: making it recognize restricted, universe and multiverse, and changing the default distribution to Ubuntu's development release (instead of "unstable").
There is a better script on devscripts, called "build-rdeps", so we should switch to it. However, it needs some work so that it works in Ubuntu, which is: making it recognize restricted, universe and multiverse, and changing the default distribution to Ubuntu's development release (instead of "unstable").