Bug#1050974: binNMU: Rebuild against curl without NSS support

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

On 2023-09-01 19:45:53 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 01-09-2023 14:25, Samuel Henrique wrote:
> > These packages have a build dependency on the virtual package
> > "libcurl4-dev", which is satisfiable by any variant of the curl
> > binaries (openssl, gnutls, nss).
> 
> Policy 7.5 [1] says that "To specify which of a set of real packages should
> be the default to satisfy a particular dependency on a virtual package, list
> the real package as an alternative before the virtual one." It's best
> practice to specify which real package should be used to avoid apt choosing
> it on the buildd. We had variation because of temporary non-installability
> in the past (IIRC), it's better to wait with building.
> 
> I must admit I though the requirement was stronger and you *had to* specify
> a real package before a virtual build dependency.

So let's not just rebuild those. Samuel, please file bugs against those
packages so that the maintainers fix the build dependencies.

Cheers

> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#virtual-packages-provides




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Sebastian Ramacher