Bug#337015: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#337015: Does not correctly fetch experimental depends

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> 
> I have a package which depends on a package which is in unstable and
> experimental.  It build-depends on the version in experimental, and my
> pbuilder chroot has the experimental sources available to it, but
> pbuilder fetches the package from unstable.  Obviously at this point the
> package build fails.
> 
> It appears that although pbuilder confirms that the package version
> requested is available (from experimental), it doesn't use the version
> number when fetching the packages so it ends up being fetched from
> unstable.

It is quite possible that apt-pinning is working against us.
I don't think build-dep resolver really takes much consideration about
experimental.

We could make apt-pinning work so that it will always 
prefer experimental over unstable when experimental is 
used.


For workaround you can change apt-pinning configuration 
inside the base.tgz.

	pbuilder login --save-after-login

It would be nice if you could try and see if it's a valid
workaround, and I'll be able to consider documenting the 
workaround/adding an option/whatever else.


regards,
	junichi
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