Bug#395531: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#395531: sbuild: dependency resolution for xcursor-themes failed (b-dep on a | b ; a not available)

[Roger Leigh]

Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:

> I tried to build xcursor-themes 1.0.1-4 in a etch i386 chroot using
> sbuild 0.52, but it failed to resolve build dependencies correctly.
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), pkg-config, xcursorgen |
> xbase-clients, libxcursor-dev

> xcursorgen: missing
> E: Couldn't find package xcursorgen

> It should have choosed to build using xbase-clients instead of
> xcursorgen.

xcursorgen does not exist, so the build dependencies are broken, I
think.  I think all the dependencies need at least to be available,
even if they are not installed.  It is not valid to build depend upon
packages not in the archive.


Regards,
Roger

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