[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#633777: Bug#633777: sbuild: virtual dependency resolver broken?

[Philipp Kern]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:38:16PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> I've recently discovered that some of my packages stopped building because of the following error:
> Checking for source dependency conflicts...
> E: Package 'libjpeg-dev' has no installation candidate

You shouldn't have two providers of a package where people build-depend on.  So
it's a bug in the packages, exactly because there's no guaranteed predictable
solution to it.  (It's causing FTBFSes in unstable too.)

I won't comment on the sbuild failure mode, though.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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