Bug#545381: edos-builddebcheck: Always consider built-essential packages installable
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> Ignoring older packages is also not correct. If an Arch: any package
> with an older version has a strict dependency on an Arch: all package
> which is still available, apt will happily install them if you try to
> install the Arch:any package and will refuse to install the newer
> Arch:all package if you would try that AFAIK.
That's clear, but I though that was _intended_, for what concerns the
build. A rationale for that is that the older package will vanish soon,
it is there only temporarily, so it is pointless to build other packages
against it: it will just postpone (potential) build problems.
Wasn't that the rationale of the patch in the first place?
Cheers.
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