[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#403246: Bug#403246: Bug#403246: sbuild dependancy resolution fails when b-dep on A | B ; A uninstallable

[Andres Mejia]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 13:09:56 Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:28:24PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> > Using the newest version of sbuild in sid, I'm still having this issue.
> >
> > I have read the discussion from the bug report log, but would like to
> > add this bit of an argument as to why alternative dependencies are
> > useful, and why sbuild should be able to resolve them.
> 
> As I mentioned earlier in this bug, the main problem isn't convincing
> us why they are needed, it's the lack of any patches to address this
> shortcoming in sbuild.  More than anything else, we need someone to do
> the work to implement resolving of alternative build deps.
> 
> If you have the time to look into it, a patch implementing alternative
> build-dep installation would be very much appreciated.
> 
> The current sbuild code now has the ability to select alternative
> build dependency algorithms (so as to no affect backward compatibility
> and allow such experimentation), so it should be reasonably
> straightfoward to add an additional algorithm.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger
> 

Maybe this bug should be tagged 'help' then. I'll probably look into this as I 
have maintained packages before where I had alternative build dependencies.

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Regards,
Andres