Re: Buildd rejected my Build-depends:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:38:52PM +0100, Judicaël Courant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The build daemon rejected (a previous version of) the package I maintain
> (coq). I was wondering whether it was my fault or rather a buildd bug?
>
> Here is what I did: my package build-depends on a compiler named ocaml
> as well as a companion tool of ocaml, named camlp4. Formerly, ocaml and
> camlp4 were independent packages, so I put the line
>
> Build-depends: debhelper (>= 3), ocaml (>= 3.01), camlp4 (>= 3.01)
>
> in the control file of my package.
>
> The latest upstream version of ocaml now provides camlp4, and the debian
> package Replaces:, Provides:, and Conflicts: camlp4. I expected that
> just replacing "camlp4 (>= 3.01)" by "camlp4" (as virtual package do not
> have any version number) would make my package ok both for the former
> and the newer version of the ocaml package.
>
> Unfortunately, this does make buildd unhappy (see
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=coq&ver=7.2-2&arch=alpha&stamp=1011482278&file=log&as=raw for instance), as it tries to "apt-get install" both ocaml and camlp4, and "apt-get" does not seem to understand that camlp4 is a virtual package provided by ocaml (so it complains that camlp4 and ocaml conflict together).
>
> Is this a bug of buildd or did I miss anything with virtual packages?
> [NB : my question is not how to make buildd happy --- I already have a
> workaround for this problem.]
Maybe something related with virtual depends cannot be versionned ?
Also, it would be nice, once ocaml enters testing, to ask the ftp masters to
remove the now obsolet camlp4 package.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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