Bug#218037: openoffice.org: apt-get build-dep rejects correct bison

[Jim Watson <jim@amarooas.com.au>]

I assume this affects all platforms build-dep, openoffice.org needs a workaround 
see below


Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:38:22PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> 
> Build-Depends: bison (<= 1:1.75-1) | bison (>= 1:1.875a-1), debhelper (>= 4.0.9) | debhelper (= 4.0.2.openoffice), flex | flex-old, libpam0g-dev | libpam-dev, libxaw7-dev, tcsh, unzip, zip, g++-3.3 (>= 1:3.3.1-1) | g++-3.0 [!powerpc], autoconf (>= 2.54), j2sdk1.3 [!s390], sharutils, libcrimson-java, libxalan-java, libxalan2-java, libgtk2.0-dev, pkg-config, libpng12-dev | libpng2-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libtiff3g-dev, libart-2.0-dev (>= 2.3.13), imagemagick, xutils, libfontconfig1-dev, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.6-3) [sparc], libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1) [powerpc], gimp-perl | gimp1.2-perl, xvfb, xbase-clients, xfonts-base
> 
> This is a known limitation of apt-get build-dep; it only attempts to install
> the first alternative in a group.  So if this |-expression is reversed, this
> particular problem should be solved.  See #214736 for details.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz