Re: TL2007: texlive-bin Build-Depends on virtual packages without mentioning "real" alternatives

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libappconfig-perl
>>   libncurses-dev libxaw7-dev libpng-dev libz-dev libgd2-xpm-dev |
>>   libgd2-noxpm-dev flex bison libpoppler-dev
>> 
>> #  aptitude install libappconfig-perl libncurses-dev libxaw7-dev libpng-dev libz-dev libgd2-xpm-dev flex bison libpoppler-dev
>> Note: selecting "libncurses5-dev" instead of the
>>       virtual package "libncurses-dev"
>> Note: selecting "libpng12-dev" instead of the
>>       virtual package "libpng-dev"
>> Note: selecting "zlib1g-dev" instead of the
>>       virtual package "libz-dev"
>> 
>> This is suboptimal in terms of ensuring reproducible builds.
>
> AFAIR this was for sarge builds ... someone (don't remember who) wanted
> to build for sarge and there are different versions of this libs.

Even then, libpng12-dev | libpng-dev is better.

> Feel free to change it to something reasonable ...

Already done in my working copy.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)