Re: TL2007: texlive-bin Build-Depends on virtual packages without mentioning "real" alternatives

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Frank!

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libappconfig-perl
>   libncurses-dev libxaw7-dev libpng-dev libz-dev libgd2-xpm-dev |
>   libgd2-noxpm-dev flex bison libpoppler-dev
> 
> #  aptitude install libappconfig-perl libncurses-dev libxaw7-dev libpng-dev libz-dev libgd2-xpm-dev flex bison libpoppler-dev
> Note: selecting "libncurses5-dev" instead of the
>       virtual package "libncurses-dev"
> Note: selecting "libpng12-dev" instead of the
>       virtual package "libpng-dev"
> Note: selecting "zlib1g-dev" instead of the
>       virtual package "libz-dev"
> 
> This is suboptimal in terms of ensuring reproducible builds.

AFAIR this was for sarge builds ... someone (don't remember who) wanted
to build for sarge and there are different versions of this libs.

Feel free to change it to something reasonable ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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