Bug#1024992: libsoup2.4: FTBFS when built using sbuild in bullseye

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:libsoup2.4
Version: 2.74.3-1
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: sanvila at debian.org,josch at debian.org

Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in bookworm I noticed that sbuild 
(bullseye version) is unable to install the build-dependencies of 
libsoup2.4:

Installing build dependencies
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy : Depends: php-xmlrpc but it is not 
installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
apt-get failed.
E: Package installation failed
Not removing build depends: cloned chroot in use


I think this would not happen if every build-dependency using "OR" 
(there are several of them) was specified like this:

build-depends: real-package | virtual-package

which AFAIK has always been the standard for dependencies.

(I'm Cc:ing to Johannes Schauer (sbuild) in case he has any comments).

Thanks.