Bug#822277: gdk-pixbuf is not binNMU safe and becomes uninstallable on every package update

[Matthias Klose]

Control: reopen -1

On 23.04.2016 01:07, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 23.04.2016 um 01:02 schrieb Matthias Klose:
>> On 23.04.2016 00:50, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> Am 23.04.2016 um 00:09 schrieb Matthias Klose:
>>>> Package: src:gdk-pixbuf
>>>> Version: 2.34.0-1
>>>> Severity: important
>>>>
>>>> $ apt-cache show libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0|grep Depends
>>>> Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common (= 2.34.0-1)
>>>>
>>>> In this form the package cannot be binNMUed
>>>
>>> Sure it can.
>>> Using = ${source:Version} between a arch: any to arch: all package is
>>> totally safe.
>>
>> but this shows up every time as uninstallability when the gdk-pixbuf is
>> not yet built on some archs, and I'm trying to build either gcc or openjdk.
>
> So what? That just means the dependencies work as intended. We don't
> want any version skew. Once the buildds have picked up, your package
> will build just fine.

well, you're artificially delaying archive builds.  Imagine I would add such a 
dependency in one of the GCC runtime libraries. So there is an issue.

 > Not being binNMU safe means something completely different.

well, how should the issue be renamed?