Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages
Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:40:51PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> apt-get complains if there is more than one source of the provides
>> (even two sources with the same name/version). sbuild then picks the
>> first choice apt lists for the provides which is non deterministic and
>> strongly discouraged.
>
> This is never the case for ocaml, since we always have only one package
> providing ocaml-<version>.
No you don't. You have one per entry in the sources.list. As I said
even the same version can make apt-get build-dep fail. Two versions,
like when you just uploaded a new one that a local mirror doesn't have
yet or users with stable/testing/unstable entries, makes apt always fail.
>> As I said in the past this needs a real metapackage that then depends
>> on the actual ocaml package.
>
> Agreed, this would be an alternative solution and probably better wrt
> possible bugs in sbuild/apt. But still there's no real problem ATM with
> our solution, thus please stop asserting statements like "You can't
> Build-Depend on virtual packages". Thanks.
>
> Cheers.
MfG
Goswin
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