On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:40:51PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:15:30AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> [ Mail-Followup-To: set to debian-mentors only ] > > > >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:57:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > You can't Build-Depend on virtual packages. > > > >> Ok, time to settle down this issue. > > > >> We do, all ocaml packages build depends on ocaml-3.08.3 a virtual > >> package provided by ocaml. What's the problem with that? It has worked > >> properly for two years or so. > > > > Then you've been lucky. I don't think I've ever seen a clear statement that > > virtual build dependencies *should* work, but they usually *do* work -- > > *except* when there are bugs, which has happened from time to time. It > > seems that sbuild particularly likes to object to build-dependencies on > > virtual packages that were once real packages (e.g., libmysqlclient-dev -> > > libmysqlclient12-dev). As a result, it seems to generally be more robust to > > build-dep on a real package when possible. > > apt-get complains if there is more than one source of the provides > (even two sources with the same name/version). sbuild then picks the > first choice apt lists for the provides which is non deterministic and > strongly discouraged. > > As I said in the past this needs a real metapackage that then depends > on the actual ocaml package.
We don have this problem, as for both ocaml-<version> and ocaml-best-pacackages, there is only one real pasckage providing those. The same happens for things like spamoracle which is provided by spamoracle-byte on non-native arches. BTW, stefano, what happened to your presentation in helsinki ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
