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Update setup-building.rst with a note about missing libmpdec-dev
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Add a note to the linux/debian instructions for building all optional packages.  libmpdec-dev is removed from recent Debian and can safely be dropped from list of packages to install.
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hughsw authored Aug 14, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -660,6 +660,9 @@ on Linux, macOS and iOS.
libncurses5-dev libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev \
lzma lzma-dev tk-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libmpdec-dev

Note that recent Debian distributions do not have the ``libmpdec-dev`` package.
You can safely remove it from the install list above and the Python build will
use a bundled version.

.. tab:: macOS

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