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Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability



On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:09:49 +0100
Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:13:26 +0200
> "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 
> > In a few days, I'll start filing bugs against packages that build
> > unpredictably when extra build-dependencies are present. (More
> > precisely, packages where the dependency or file list differ between
> > a clean sid amd64 pbuilt packages and a chroot with almost all of
> > devel and libdevel.) 
> 
> As other have noted, the logs are in error. I've checked the log for
> deb-gview in meld and the only difference in the two Depends line is:
> zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
> zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
> 
> That is NOT a bug!!!
> 
> Whenever you build deb-gview, the version of the dependency will be
> the version of zlib1g (and other libraries) currently in unstable.
> There is nothing I can do about that, nor would I want to change that.

I get exactly the same result with using meld on the gnotime report:

zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1),
zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1),

Please don't file bugs that result from this artefact.

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Neil Williams
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