Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (2021-01-27 15:09:41) > So most packages now have an alternative dependency like libqt5gui5 > (>= 5.x) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.x). The strange thing is that *some* > users upgrading from stable or reinstalling packages [1] get the -gles > variant instead of the non-gles one by default. This causes bugs like > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976389 > > So far we couldn't reproduce the issue so we are kindly asking for > your help in order to determine what's causing this behavior. In above bugreport you write the following: > All dependencies should be in a form like libqt5gui5 | > libqt5gui5-gles, so apt should fall back to the latter package only if > the former is not available for some reason. So I want to understand > what that reason is. Is that really correct for all apt tools? That the first is certain to be prioritized? I suspect that's not really the case - that instead apt tools might pick at random. It is my understanding that build daemons _ignore_ secondary entries exactly to avoid such ambiguity. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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