Hi, Quoting Ximin Luo (2016-10-31 08:35:00) > I think we might have to make ocaml-best-compilers a real package, so that we > can have versioned Build-Depends: rules on it. > > Currently the ocamlbuild in experimental is using ocaml 4.02.3 from sid. I > need to force it to compile against ocaml 4.03.0 instead so that it generates > 4.03.0-versioned .cmi files, otherwise the camlp4 build fails (and others > will too). > > However, if I simply add "ocaml-best-compilers (>= 4.03.0)" into > Build-Depends I still get an error like: > > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: ocaml-best-compilers (>= 4.03.0) > > so it looks like we can't do this for virtual packages. (Yes, I do have > 4.03.0 installed For Sure Totally). yes, see policy §7.5: "If a relationship field has a version number attached, only real packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is satisfied" cheers, josch
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