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Re: apt-build and xfree86



On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:37, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:22:13PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> > You are correct, but apt-get build-dep doesn't know this.  I have since
> > been educated as to the source of this problem.  It is in fact a bug in
> > apt-get build-dep that doesn't handle OR's very well.  Bugs  98640
> > 126938 131265 and 145997 are manifestations of this bug.  Not even going
> > in and satisfying the build-deps by hand lets apt-build build the
> > package.  Sorry for the static.
> 
> Well, it didn't help that I wasn't depending on a real package to help
> apt out.
> 
> xfree86 4.2.1-4 will B-D on "kernel-headers-2.4.19-386 |
> kernel-headers-2.4 | hurd | freebsd | netbsd | openbsd".  This will of
> course only help Linux/i386 people, but it's better than nothing.

I don't think this will help the situation because I have a
kernel-headers-* package already installed and it still bombs out on
apt-get build-deps.  And I see that it breaks auto-building on the
sbuild, so I think you should probably leave it the way it was(IMHO).  

-Scott Henson



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