On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:38:52PM +0100, Judica�l Courant wrote: > Hi, > > The build daemon rejected (a previous version of) the package I maintain > (coq). I was wondering whether it was my fault or rather a buildd bug? > > Here is what I did: my package build-depends on a compiler named ocaml > as well as a companion tool of ocaml, named camlp4. Formerly, ocaml and > camlp4 were independent packages, so I put the line > > Build-depends: debhelper (>= 3), ocaml (>= 3.01), camlp4 (>= 3.01) > > in the control file of my package. > > The latest upstream version of ocaml now provides camlp4, and the debian > package Replaces:, Provides:, and Conflicts: camlp4. I expected that > just replacing "camlp4 (>= 3.01)" by "camlp4" (as virtual package do not > have any version number) would make my package ok both for the former > and the newer version of the ocaml package. > > Unfortunately, this does make buildd unhappy (see > >http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=coq&ver=7.2-2&arch=alpha&stamp=1011482278&file=log&as=raw > for instance), as it tries to "apt-get install" both ocaml and camlp4, and "apt-get" >does not seem to understand that camlp4 is a virtual package provided by ocaml (so it >complains that camlp4 and ocaml conflict together). > > Is this a bug of buildd or did I miss anything with virtual packages? > [NB : my question is not how to make buildd happy --- I already have a > workaround for this problem.]
Maybe something related with virtual depends cannot be versionned ? Also, it would be nice, once ocaml enters testing, to ask the ftp masters to remove the now obsolet camlp4 package. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
