Bug#448334: Should switch to pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic when aptitude is not installable

[Mattia Rizzolo]

tag 448334 + wontfix
thanks

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:51:34PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi
> 
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007, Robert Luberda wrote:
> > In current sid aptitude isn't installable, and pdebuild fails: 
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.4 but it is not installable
> > E: Broken packages
> > E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.
> > 
> > To get around the problem I set PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD to 
> > "/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic", but I think it would be
> > nice if pbuilder-satisfydepends could automatically switch to
> > pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic in this case.
> 
>  I don't think it's nice to change the core behavious of pbuilder
>  automatically; what you did is the right thing, and that's all which
>  should be done.  I think aptitude should be installed on pbuilder
>  create and kept on pbuilder update instead of being installed during
>  each build (as the code allows in the current version but it might or
>  might not be the case for you).  I committed a change to add/keep
>  aptitude in the environment when using the aptitude resolver, and not
>  otherwise.
> 
>  Is this good enough to close this bug?

I totally agree with Loïc here.
automagically change such a thing at runtime is Bad™.
nowadays if aptitude becomes uninstallable, either it's already
installed in the chroot and so we don't care it's not installable, or
just switch resolver.

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