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Re: Build-Recommends



* Adeodato Simó [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:14:00 +0200]:
> * Roberto C. Sanchez [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:24 -0400]:

> > Couldn't you also Build-Depend on 'ocaml-native-compilers | ocaml'?

>   Good idea, but it won't work (at least with the version of sbuild in
>   unstable, if buildds are using something more recent and smarter,
>   that's another story).
  
  Uhm, I stand corrected:

16:34 <dato> Yoe: do you know if the (new?) sbuild used by buildds copes with
             the situation above?
16:34 <Yoe> dato: yes, it should handle it
16:35 <Yoe> dato: it will install the preferred package, but either fall back
            if that doesn't exist on the given architecture,
16:35 <Yoe> or not touch whatever is already installed if one is
16:35 <dato> ok, sweet
16:35 <dato> I will mail -mentors again, sbuild in sid couldn't cope
16:35 <Yoe> for instance, many buildd chroots already have ssmtp installed, so
            an alternative like 'exim4 | mail-transport-agent' will not do
            anything
16:35 <Yoe> then sbuild in sid is broken
16:36 <Yoe> but no official autobuilder uses that one anyway; it's been
            modified so that it's useful to "normal" users as a generic build
            tool
16:37 <dato> Yoe: ok. has this been a recent change in the sbuild used by
             buildds, or has it been behaving like that for a long time already?
16:37 <Yoe> the latter
16:37 <Yoe> I don't recall it ever behaving differently, in fact


  Sorry for the false alarm. ;-)

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