[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#456934: Bug#456934: sbuild: Wrong handling of or'ed build-dependencies

[Michael Banck]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:10:37AM +0100, Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote:
> > Isn't it usual sbuild behaviour to only try the first package of a set
> > of alternatives?
> 
> Currently yes, but I consider this a bug. The patched code already runs
> in a loop to check for all alternatives, but it currently fails, if it
> can't satisfy a versioned dependency.

Maybe this is a divergence of the sbuild package from upstream sbuild
then.  Fact is that the buildds will show this behaviour, so I am not
sure changing it in the sbuild package is the best solution.


Michael