build-depending on a virtual package

To: Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
Subject: build-depending on a virtual package
From: George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 00:14:30 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 200605020014.30774.danchev@spnet.net>

Hello,

I just discovered the fact that ara build-depends on a virtual package - 
ocaml-best-compilers. I'm not sure about the reasons we have been after to 
declared this in a such way, but this should give random failures imho. How 
are autobuilders supposed know which physical package(s) to install to satisfy 
the provision of ocaml-best-compilers. Seems it is far better to build-depend 
on ocaml-native-compilers or I'm missing something ?

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