severity 457151 wishlist thanks On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Well, here's a further diagnosis. For some reason, the order of > installed packages in the buildds (and my pbuilder) are being > reordered in alphabetical order.
Relying in the installation order of packages to get the right behaviour is asking for troubles. If you do not want a specific package as alternative, remove it from the alternative and/or build-conflict on it. It's as simple as that. (In fact it's an issue where we want to compile the debian package in one given environment but want the user to be able to build it in another one but we don't have debian-specific Build-Depends/Conflicts) > As this has caused enough damage already (e.g. octave2.9, numpy etc.) > not unnecessarily depend on atlas. Therefore, I chose to file this as > serious. Please feel free to downgrade severity if you feel so. It's certainly not serious. Though while I care that "Depends" on binary package are reordered, I care less of Build-Depends and I have no problem if this patch is applied. But I really don't like the justification of the revert, thus I'm inclined to not revert it and close the bug. But I'd like to have the opinions of other dpkg developers first. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
