libphobos-dev build-dep
Wouter Verhelst
wouter at debian.org
Sun Mar 23 09:10:05 UTC 2014
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:53:55AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.
Actually, it will; but the reason why we recommend people don't "just"
use virtual dependencies is that it may pick one semi-randomly, which
makes the result unpredictable (and that's not a good feature).
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