On September 21, 2015 4:42:13 PM EDT, Vincent Cheng <vch...@debian.org> wrote: >On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> >wrote: >> Source: kivy >> Severity: normal >> >> Hi, >> kivy is using gstreamer 1.0, but still has alternate build-deps/deps >> on gstreamer 0.10: >> >> libgstreamer0.10-dev >> python-gst0.10 >> >> Please remove these, gstreamer 0.10 is scheduled for removal from >> the archive. > >Is it not possible to keep these alternate build-deps in d/control to >e.g. ease backporting? My understanding is that the dependency >resolver that buildds use will only look at the first build-dep and >disregard alternate build-deps.
As long as whoever files that rm bugs mentions these are alternates, it shouldn't delay removal of the obsolete packages. Scott K
