Bug#638856: [pbuilder] fails to create with option --distribution experimental

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Wed Aug 1 10:27:21 UTC 2012


This might be caused by

  APT::Default-Release "experimental";

in apt.conf which pbuilder seems to add for a experimental chroot.
Doing this is wrong as it will cause all dependencies to be taken from
experimental, including those having a high enough version in unstable.

In particular I heard that pbuilder currently tries to install perl 5.16
from experimental (perl 5.16 is not really installable).

Ansgar



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