Bug#820492: pbuilder: satisfydepends-classic can't install versioned build dependency from experimental

[Thorsten Glaser]

Dmitry Smirnov dixit:

>when required version of dependency is not available: when only "unstable" 
>suite is enabled -experimental resolver quietly install older version of 
>dependency which causes FTBFS later on.

That’s a bug in your package, you must version the Build-Depends
properly so that only the version in experimental fulfils it.

This is the same with official buildds: they are allowed to use
any older version of the package to fulfil the B-D if the newer
is not in the archive yet.

It also helps backports.

>-aptitude resolver is superior

Oh well but it uses aptitude.

I remember someone contributed an apt-based resolver which does
like sbuild some time ago. What became of that?

Also, apt can now install packages directly, so it could probably
be simplified… except I wish for it to work down to sarge, so I’d
prefer the full version with a sources.list entry.

bye,
//mirabilos
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