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. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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