[DRE-maint] Bug#882163: ruby-ronn: unable to satisfy cross Build-Depends

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Axel,

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:03:49PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Replacing any dependency on "ruby-ronn" with "ronn | ruby-ronn (<<
> 0.7.3-5.1~)" should do the trick.

That doesn't do what you think it does. Alternatives in Build-Depends
are discarded in unstable. So this variant does not work in unstable
before ronn exists. It would have made your package bd-uninstallable.

> This actually what I plan for unburden-home-dir, because I want it to
> stay easily backportable.

Backports do consider alternatives if I remember correctly.

Helmut