[Python-modules-team] Bug#799725: Bug#799725: Please remove alternate build deps for gstreamer 0.10

[Scott Kitterman]

On September 21, 2015 4:42:13 PM EDT, Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org>
>wrote:
>> Source: kivy
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hi,
>> kivy is using gstreamer 1.0, but still has alternate build-deps/deps
>> on gstreamer 0.10:
>>
>> libgstreamer0.10-dev
>> python-gst0.10
>>
>> Please remove these, gstreamer 0.10 is scheduled for removal from
>> the archive.
>
>Is it not possible to keep these alternate build-deps in d/control to
>e.g. ease backporting? My understanding is that the dependency
>resolver that buildds use will only look at the first build-dep and
>disregard alternate build-deps.

As long as whoever files that rm bugs mentions these are alternates, it shouldn't delay removal of the obsolete packages.

Scott K