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

[Lucas Nussbaum]

reassign 395531 xcursor-themes
severity 395531 serious
retitle 395531 xcursor-themes: FTBFS: build-depends on non-existing package xcursorgen
thanks

On 27/10/06 at 23:21 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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.
 
Ah, thank you.
Reassigning to xcursor-themes accordingly.
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