On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:57:56PM -0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> libc6-dev is in build-essential, so no buildd will ever be without it.
> That said, Steve's suggestion still looks pretty darned hideous to me,
> and it's likely better either for Ubuntu to just be carrying a small
> build-dep diff for now, or for us to evaluate the value of moving
> dietlibc to main.

Well, an alternative might be dietlibc-dev | libc-dev; libc-dev is a virtual
package provided by the build-essential -dev package on each arch.

> (Note also that the "dietlibc-dev | libc6-dev" build-dep would never do
> what you want in Debian since, as mentioned, libc6-dev is already
> installed on all the buildds)

Ah, right, there is that...

> As a side note, I could very easily implement [derivative] and
> [!derivative] support in sbuild, but while it would work in Ubuntu,
> getting it accepted (and, more painfully, rolled out to every buildd) in
> Debian might be tougher. :/

In practice, Debian wouldn't have to support this, because it would just
look like an unknown architecture to the Debian buildds.

But in the meantime, I'll just plan to upload re-adding the Ubuntu delta
that was dropped.

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