What exactly was the "that" that worked?
Note that plugins issues is [here](https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins). (Each plugin is maintained by individuals, only a few of whom are Geany team members and so may not be watching here).
Plugins have their own build dependency requirements in addition to Geany ones, you need to read the docs for each plugin, thats usually why they don't configure. The debugger plugin is missing the VTE dev package according to the compile error.
I'm also interested in why it even tried to build debugger when the configure said "no". A problem for the plugins maintainer or debuggers maintainer I guess.