libphobos-dev build-dep

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Sun Mar 23 00:12:49 UTC 2014


Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> writes:
> Steve Langasek, le Sat 22 Mar 2014 12:43:56 -0700, a écrit :

>> Um, no, build-depending on virtual packages is absolutely allowed.

> Yes, but something has to make the buildd pick up one package which
> provides it.  It won't decide by itself which one to choose.

Only if there is more than one package providing the same virtual package.
If there is only one, the buildds will pick that one.  And at the moment
there appears to be only one provider.

The problem, rather, is that the package is not available.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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