Bug#547724: apt-get build-dep $PACKAGE doesn't handle build-dependencies with architecture wildcards

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:32:28PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Version: 0.7.23.1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> When performing 'apt-get build-dep sbuild-dependencies-resolver', it will not
>> install libgl1-mesa-dev on an i386 machine. Yet if I change the Build-Depends
>> field to,
>> 
>>     Build-Depends: libgl1-mesa-dev [any-i386] | libgl1-mesa-dev [i386]
>> 
>> then libgl1-mesa-dev will be installed on an i386 machine.
> I thought those wildcards are only for debian/control and will be replaced
> by dpkg automatically. But yes, we need support for it sometime.

They will be replaced in deb packages but not in source. And only in
Arch:any packages.

MfG
        Goswin