What is going on with gtkdatabox?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 08:40:43AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 02:49:56AM +0000, peter green wrote:
> > 
> > brp-pacu: has a build-dependency on libgtkdatabox-0.9.2-0-dev |
> > libgtkdatabox-dev . Unfortunately buildds only look at the first option
> 
> I'm now realising that the first option has installable candidates which
> is astonishing since I assumed that with a new source package upload the
> binaries created by the previous version would vanish from the mirrors.
> That's the first case I see this happen.  Did I miss anything? :-(
> 
> In any case ibgtkdatabox-0.9.2-0-dev and
> libgtkdatabox-0.9.2-0_0.9.2.0+dfsg-1_amd64.deb should vanish from the
> mirrors.

"only look at the first option" != "use the first available option"

To prevent exactly this kind of problems, the libgtkdatabox-dev 
alternative in the build dependencies won't be considered by the
buildds for unstable.

> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.

cu
Adrian

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