Bug#331668: build-dep and pinning
Michael Vogt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was pondering about this a bit and I don't think it can be
>supported. The best that can be done seems to be to allow:
># apt-get build-dep evolution -t unstable
>to get evolution from unstable (that should work in the next apt
>upload to experimental).
>
>The problem is that there will be packages with different source than
>binary version number (because of bin-NMUs). E.g.:
>$ apt-cache madison dpkg
> dpkg | 1.13.11.0.1 | http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
> dpkg | 1.13.11 | http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Sources
>
>If apt [build-dep|source] would use the version number from the
>canidate version (1.13.11.0.1) it would not be able to find a matching
>source and a "apt-get [build-dep|source] dpkg" would fail. Most users
>would see this as a regression (also it's technically correct that it
>can't find a matching source :)
>
>Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
>
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