[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#622832: Bug#622832: Bug#622832: sbuild: build-deps not satisfied for "foo (<< 1) | foo (>= 2)"

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:56:38AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> am Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:03:28AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> > This is a case where we tightened up the resolver behaviour in the
> > apt and aptitude resolvers.
> 
> I wonder if that shouldn't be the case for such dependencies as outlined here,
> i.e. the same package being involved just excluding a few versions in between.
> It feels legit, at least for binNMUs.

I would tend to agree--it's not like it's a different package.
It could be considered a single dependency, but which is required
to be in several parts.

We could alter the code that strips out the alternatives to allow
any alternative with the same package name as the first.  Does
this sound acceptable?


Thanks,
Roger

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