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Bug#545381: edos-builddebcheck: Always consider built-essential packages installable



On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:50:05PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I confess I don't understand this hack/problem. apt-get by default
> considers all versions of any package he finds in a Packages as valid
> candidates to satisfy a dependency (up to pinning of course).

IIRC if you say, for instance, "apt-get install foo", then apt only considers
the newest version (well, subjected to pinning, but let's consider that
pinning is not present) and then tries to satisfy its dependencies.  It does
not notice that it's not installable *and then* retry with older versions.

At least that's how I understand it.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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