On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:05:47PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi Wouter, > > I'm quoting you in full below, because I think that d-wb-team is the > right place for this. > > Can you install libasound-dev on a powerpc machine? It seems that > libasound2-dev should provide it, and that is in powerpc. > > It rather seems that sbuild is having trouble talking to apt-get to find > out what provides this virtual package: > > E: Package 'libasound-dev' has no installation candidate > > Package libasound-dev is a virtual package provided by: > > apt-get failed. > > Package installation failed > > Unless someone verifies manually using apt-get on powerpc that the build > dependencies are really not installable, I have to assume that this is > not a bug with wanna-build's distcheck support.
This is a bug in the package. There are several packages providing the virtual package libasound-dev, and the package should select one of those. But it's annoying that edos is trying all the virtual packages while that isn't the behaviour we want. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
