On 08/05/07 at 19:28 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:37:55PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > When a package build-depends on a | b, and a is uninstallable, it
> > doesn't try to b. That's already known as bug #403246.
> > 
> > But when a package build-depends on a | b, and a is installable, it
> > installs a, even if this prevents another build-dependancy to be
> > installed.
>  
> As I understand it, that's the intended upstream behaviour.

Ah true. An example is crystalspace:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=crystalspace;ver=0.99-20060125-2;arch=alpha;stamp=1169975707

But there's still is a bug with a way sbuild deals with Provides vs
versioned Depends.
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