[Pkg-oss4-maintainers] Help (voodoo, really) needed [Re: failed i386 build of iceweasel 11.0~b1-2]

[Samuel Thibault]

Bastian Blank, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 20:36:33 +0100, a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:07:40PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Bastian Blank, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 19:02:59 +0100, a écrit :
> > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:59:51PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Bastian Blank, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 18:52:10 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > > I see this:
> > > > > | Provides: libasound2-dev, liboss-salsa-dev
> > > > These, that's expected.
> > > No, this is not expected. libasound2-dev is a real package.
> > On Linux.
> 
> Irrelevant. If I depend on X and it is real, I want X.

Except that here X doesn't exist on non-linux ports.

> > > > > So liboss4-salsa-dev is seriously broken.
> > > > How so?
> > > It breaks unrelated packages.
> > Not on !linux.
> 
> Obviously it does. So stop it.

What is obvious? liboss-libsalsa-dev hasn't posed any problem since
2009. liboss4-salsa-dev does because it was also introduced on Linux
port.  That is a problem, indeed, but I still don't see what it
breaks on non-linux ports.  If it didn't exist, packages depending on
libasound2-dev would even just *not* be compiled at all.  So it does not
make the situation worse.

Samuel