[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#707176: Bug#707176: lightdm: FTBFS: build-depends on valac-0.18

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2013-05-08 at 00:24 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Package: src:lightdm
> Version: 1.6.0-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid wheezy
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Your package failed to build on the buildds because it build-depends on
> valac-0.18 as first alternative which is only in experimental. buildds
> only consider the first alternative in build-depends to guarantee
> consistent results.
> 
Grmbl. It built just fine in a clean sid pbuilder. It'd be nice to have
the same behavior by default in pbuilder :/

Anyway, the dependency was added by Niv. Niv, can you comment on why it
is needed, exactly?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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