On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:54:13PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 22:45 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 08:45:07PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > It won't work on the buildds, however, whether pbuilder handles it or > > > not. > [...] > > 1) If I build the package in a clean chroot, it will work because apt > > will install one of the providers. > [...] > > > libcurl4-dev is a virtual package with multiple providers, and the > > > buildd software won't automatically pick between them, so the same > > > situation will recur. > > > > Given that both apt and pbuilder easily cope with the situation, this > > sounds like a missing feature in the buildd software. > > Which version of apt? 0.8.13 certainly doesn't appear to "easily cope" > - on a system with none of the providers installed:
My bad. I could have sworn I only ever used apt-get build-dep octave3.2 in the chroot. But that doesn't even try to pull in libcurl*. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org