libphobos-dev build-dep
Russ Allbery
rra at debian.org
Sun Mar 23 00:54:17 UTC 2014
Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery, le Sat 22 Mar 2014 17:12:49 -0700, a écrit :
>> Only if there is more than one package providing the same virtual
>> package. If there is only one, the buildds will pick that one.
> I don't think so.
See how libjpeg-dev has been handled for some time.
> If it was true, then we'd have non-deterministic builds depending one
> what package happens to be available.
That's why only one package Provides the virtual package name when they're
used for this purpose. It would indeed be a bug if multiple packages
provided the same virtual package name at the same time, but it works if
that is not the case.
This approach is a simpler way of implementing the same thing that
gcc-defaults and boost-defaults do with a separate source package. It
lets multiple versions of a library exist in the archive at the same time
and for most packages to build-depend on the current "default," which can
then be changed by moving the Provides from one package to another and
then rebuilding everything with binNMUs.
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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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