gnome-shell 3.7.92 unbuildable on amd64?

Tue Mar 26 19:47:59 UTC 2013

On 03/26/2013 06:22 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 06:00 PM, Benjamin Redelings wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I just wanted to note that gnome-shell 3.7.92 is unbuildable on amd64.  I
>> presume this is why the package is available for i386, but not for amd64 in
>> experimental.  gnome-shell is the last package needed in order to install gnome
>> from from experimental on amd64 - everything else appears to be installable.
> 
> We know about it, we just don't know why. I can't reproduce it on
> i386/cowbuilder. Might just be an issue on sbuild. Somebody needs to investigate
> why the build-deps can't be installed.

It turns out this is an aptitude bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693921

Cheers,
Emilio