[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#684828: Bug#684828: marked as done (backbone: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libnode-uglify)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

reopen 684828
thanks

On 12-08-25 at 11:15pm, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:11:42 -0400
> From: David Prévot <taffit at debian.org>
> > During a rebuild of all packages in *wheezy*, your package failed to 
> > build on amd64.
> […]
> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >>  sbuild-build-depends-backbone-dummy : Depends: libnode-uglify but it is not installable
> >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >> apt-get failed.
> 
> Actually its an OR dependency:
> 
>  libnode-uglify | yui-compressor
> 
> The package builds fine in a Wheezy amd64 pbuilder chroot (pulling 
> yui-compressor), thus closing the bug. I just wanted to put some light 
> on this issue: maybe the resolver used to perform the archive rebuild 
> could be improved to avoid this kind of false positive.
> 
> I've tagged a few FTBFS on wheezy as unreproducible (because I didn't 
> investigate why it failed ten days ago, or because I couldn't find an 
> obvious reason), should I simply have closed them?

The bug is real: fallback-build-dependencies are unofficial, and the 
purpose of it here is only to ease backporting, not for official use.

 - Jonas

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