On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 09:27:12PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> As Arno hinted at, it's to have reliable builds. A transient inability
> to install the first arm of an alternation should caused a dep-wait
> state, not building with the alternate Build-Depends.
which is kinda bullshit, as a different set of transitive
build-dependencies can happen due to alternatives in the dependencies of
any transitive build-dep, so the "have stable builds by removing
alternatives in the build-dep list" is really pointless.
For example ubuntu considers them to, there is just a switch in sbuild
to have it consider them.
> Now, backports are a different story because they use a different
> resolver which will pull in alternates.
afaik sbuild strips the alternatives while parsing the .dsc (or
d/control or whatever), before passing the information to the resolvers,
so even if you use another resolver for -bpo you still get the same
behaviour.
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