[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#395271: tagging 395271

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:39:49AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.27
> # removing patch tag since the proposed patch doesnt work
> tags 395271 - patch

Did you actually try the patch? Roger never commented on my reply where
I think I made myself clear:

> > The libmail-box-perl case hits another issue, filed as #403246 ("sbuild
> > dependancy resolution fails when b-dep on A | B ; A uninstallable").
> > See also the discussion in #422879: "As I understand it, that's the
> > intended upstream behaviour."
> > 
> > libmail-box-perl build-depends on 
> > 
> >  libscalar-list-utils-perl (>= 1.13) | perl (>= 5.8.2-2)
> > 
> > but libscalar-list-utils-perl is only available in sid as a provided
> > package, so the versioned dependency cannot be satisfied at all and
> > sbuild gives up without considering the other option.
> > 
> > As for svk, I'm able to build 2.0.1-1 with current sid and a patched
> > sbuild. What's the error message you're getting?

I still think _this_ bug is that "=*=PROVIDED=*=" sorts after just
about every version number instead of before them. As the log in the
initial report says, sbuild thought the provided libtest-harness-perl
satisfied the versioned dependency while dpkg-checkbuilddeps didn't
(and rightly so, see policy 7.4).

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org