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Re: Help required to determine why some packages are being installed



Hi,

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-01-27 16:15:17)
> I suspect that's not really the case - that instead apt tools might pick at
> random.

no, apt does not pick at random. The apt solver prefers the first alternative.

> It is my understanding that build daemons _ignore_ secondary entries
> exactly to avoid such ambiguity.

More precisely: not only build daemons but sbuild (even if you run it locally)
strips out all but the first alternative for Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep
and Build-Depends-Arch, with the exception of those alternatives that name the
same package as the first alternative. Thus, this does *not* have an effect on
alternatives in binary packages.

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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