Hello Lucas,
As to deterministic, are you implying that the choice is not made in
a deterministic way? It probably is just that somebody or something
hates it when not all choices are valid.
If you use alternative build-deps, two builds of the same package at
the same time might produce different binary packages (and it could
happen that the i386 and amd64 packages are built against different
dependencies, for example). That is not something desirable.
As you can imagine, I would prefer to use optional build-deps and use
the alternative one only as a stop-gap.
The selected version of base-files is carefully selected to achieve the
desired effect, i.e. no Debian this package builds on has both, so there
cannot be indeterminism at all.
Yet, I would also like to understand (feel free to ignore my desire to
learn, and notice how it cannot apply to the Nuitka package as state
above): Why (in a chroot, mind you) if both alternatives are available,
a random one would be picked. Is there really a "random()" call in dpkg.
Or was this just a general statement relating to non-chroot builds,
where it clearly will be true that if the second one is already
installed, it will change the result.
Yours,
Kay
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