On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:15:30AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Mail-Followup-To: set to debian-mentors only ] > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:57:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > You can't Build-Depend on virtual packages. > Ok, time to settle down this issue. > We do, all ocaml packages build depends on ocaml-3.08.3 a virtual > package provided by ocaml. What's the problem with that? It has worked > properly for two years or so. Then you've been lucky. I don't think I've ever seen a clear statement that virtual build dependencies *should* work, but they usually *do* work -- *except* when there are bugs, which has happened from time to time. It seems that sbuild particularly likes to object to build-dependencies on virtual packages that were once real packages (e.g., libmysqlclient-dev -> libmysqlclient12-dev). As a result, it seems to generally be more robust to build-dep on a real package when possible. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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