[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#665021: nuitka: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependencies: base-files (< 6.0) but 6.7 is to be installed

[Kay Hayen]

Hello Lucas,

>> I am assuming a bug in an underlying package and ask to reassign this bug.
>
> Indeed, sbuild tends to drop alternative build-depends in order to
> enforce deterministic builds.
>
> I'm not sure if there's a bug in sbuild there, but given that squeeze
> and later have base-files>= 6.0, I'd recommend just dropping the
> alternative build-dep.

The source package as is builds for older versions of Debian too. The 
idea of this dependency is to make an optional build dependency. I 
didn't find any other means to achieve it.

So on Squeeze it is supposed to use "python3-all-dev" and on earlier 
version, it should accept that it is missing.

If "sbuild" prefers the first choice (kind of makes sense now that I 
write this sentence), I should probably just reorder in the next upload, 
and that would fix the bug.

As to deterministic, are you implying that the choice is not made in a 
deterministic way? It probably is just that somebody or something hates 
it when not all choices are valid.

Best regards,
Kay Hayen