On Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 14:52:57 +0000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't have the time to look at your work right now, but I don't follow > you here. The resulting debian/control after substitutions in the ocaml > package still have the provide lines. So why we can't still build-depend > on them? > > Nonetheless I don't like the idea of waiting for the package to be built > and installed before being able to upload it. I would like to upload a > package which build depend on ocaml-XXX and let the autobuilders build > it when that dependency is available. > The build-dependency on the virtual packages is needed when the runtime dependencies are hard-coded. If they are generated at build-time, you don't need to build-depend on the virtual package, you can just use ocaml (>= 3.09.0) or similar. This will actually work better, since autobuilders will automatically put your package in Dep-Wait for ocaml until ocaml is build and uploaded.
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