Bug#214503: autopartkit: FTBFS: incorrect dependency?

["Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net>]

Package: autopartkit
Version: 0.60
Severity: normal
File: autopartkit

I'm not too familiar with arcane packaging rules, but here's
what happened.

The builddeps complained that it the dependency for
libdebconfclient-dev (>= 0.43) was unsatisfied.

I tried apt-get install libdebconfclient-dev, it said this was a
virtual package and I should instead pick libdebconfclient0-dev 0.47.

I said apt-get install libdebconfclient0-dev and it said the 
current installed version was the most current (0.47).

I then tried make again, and it again complained that it needed
libdebconfclient-dev (>= 0.43).

I think the issue is that a version > 0.43 has been specified on a
virtual package, which really has no version number.

When I substituted libdebconfclient0-dev (>= 0.43) in the control
file, it went ahead and I got the missing configure file bug which had
already been reported.

Source: autopartkit
Section: debian-installer
Priority: standard
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Uploaders: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.13), dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0), libdebconfclient0-dev (>= 0.43), libparted1.6-dev | libparted-dev, po-debconf (>= 0.5.0)
Standards-Version: 3.6.0

Package: autopartkit
Architecture: any
Depends: libc-udeb, e2fsprogs-udeb, libparted1.6-udeb, cdebconf-udeb (>= 0.43), hw-detect-full
Provides: created-fstab, mounted-partitions, made-filesystems, partitioned-harddrives
XB-Installer-Menu-Item: 50
Description: Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe)
 This module will automatically partition the harddrive on which you wish
 to install Debian GNU/Linux. At the moment, it will destroy all data on
 all partitions, but in the future, safe resizing of FAT partitions is
 planned.
 .
 At the present time is uses only libparted and is therefore limited to
 architecture supported by libparted.
 .
 autopartkit is a minimal package used by debian-installer.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C


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