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Bug#999826: debian-policy: fix Build-Depends footnoteo



Quoting Bill Allombert (2021-11-17 13:06:09)
> > 1. "they are not normally used by the Debian autobuilders" should instead
> >    be "they are never used by the Debian autobuilders" or it should state
> >    when they are used and when they are not
> 
> If the base system on top of which the build-dependencies are to be
> installed already include one of the alternative then it is used in
> preference to the others.

But this is not what happens on the buildds. Sbuild munges all alternatives in
B-D, B-D-I and B-D-A irrespective of the packages that are already installed
and only passes the resulting meta-package to apt which cannot know anymore of
the original alternatives.

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