Bug#201688: bibtex2html: build dependencies cannot be fulfilled

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

reassign 201688 apt
severity 201688 normal
thanks

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:53:15AM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> Package: bibtex2html
> Version: 1.61-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is the problem:
> 
> # apt-get build-dep bibtex2html
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Build-Depends-Indep dependency for bibtex2html cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package ocaml-3.06-1 can satisfy version requirements
> 
> Shouldn't you use ocaml-base-3.06-1 instead of ocaml-3.06-1 ?

After investigation, this definitively seems like an apt-get bug, which
is perfectly capable of finding the real package providing the virtual
ocaml-3.06-1 when you do an apt-get install, but this seems to be not
true when one uses apt-get build-dep.

Note to the apt maintainers :

  I am really willing to discuss this with you, as i am curious as to
  what the real problems are with apt/dpkg and the virtual packages.
  "You shall not use virtual dependencies" is _not_ a right why to start
  such a discussion though, i already got that from elmo some time ago :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther