On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 01:11:10PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The following packages have been in BD-Uninstallable buildd state for a > very long time. This is because they build-depend on the libphobos-dev > virtual package instead of an actual package such as libphobos-4.4-dev > or libphobos-4.8-dev. These packages want to rather build-depend on > libphobos-4.8-dev | libphobos-dev > or > libphobos-4.4-dev | libphobos-dev > > As a reminder, buildds do not automatically pick up virtual package > build-dependencies, so as to get deterministic builds: it remains up to > the maintainers of these packages to decide whether it should be built > against libphobos 4.4 or 4.8. Um, no, build-depending on virtual packages is absolutely allowed. The package is in dep-wait because libphobos-4.8-dev is only available on amd64 and i386. There is *no* reason here for maintainers to change their build-dependencies. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature