libphobos-dev build-dep

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 01:11:10PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> The following packages have been in BD-Uninstallable buildd state for a
> very long time. This is because they build-depend on the libphobos-dev
> virtual package instead of an actual package such as libphobos-4.4-dev
> or libphobos-4.8-dev. These packages want to rather build-depend on

> libphobos-4.8-dev | libphobos-dev

> or

> libphobos-4.4-dev | libphobos-dev
> 
> As a reminder, buildds do not automatically pick up virtual package
> build-dependencies, so as to get deterministic builds: it remains up to
> the maintainers of these packages to decide whether it should be built
> against libphobos 4.4 or 4.8.

Um, no, build-depending on virtual packages is absolutely allowed.  The
package is in dep-wait because libphobos-4.8-dev is only available on amd64
and i386.  There is *no* reason here for maintainers to change their
build-dependencies.

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