[DRE-maint] Bug#655817: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependencies: ruby-memcache-client (>= 1.7.4~), ruby-tzinfo (>= 0.3.12~)

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 17:24 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> it seems more like a bug in sbuild...  since the package has
> correct build dependency alternatives:
> 
> ruby-memcache-client (>= 1.7.4~) | libmemcache-client-ruby (>= 1.7.4)
> ruby-tzinfo (>= 0.3.12~) | libtzinfo-ruby (>= 0.3.12~)

You may argue it's a bug, but in any case it's the past, present and
likely to stay future behaviour of sbuild, in order to help build
reproducibility.  If you're using alternative build-dependencies for a
package being built on Debian's buildds, the first alternative needs to
be satisfiable.

Regards,

Adam