On 2017-03-12 14:26, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: buildd.debian.org > Severity: normal > > dh-autoreconf depends on automake|automaken, where automake is a real > package currently built by src:automake-1.15, and automaken is a virtual > package provided by both automake and automake1.11. > > When building packages in any suite other than experimental, automake is > chosen, and automake1.11 is rejected. This is as expected. > > When building packages in experimental, it seems that about half the time > the aspcud solver used in experimental will select automake1.11 to satisfy > the dependency. This can cause a FTBFS, or even a silent mis-build. > For instance, in flatpak 0.8.4-1: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=flatpak&ver=0.8.4-1&suite=experimental > you'll see that 4/10 builds chose automake and succeeded, but 6/10 builds > chose automake1.11 and failed.
Well this is definitely a bug in dh-autoreconf. The package should work with all the alternatives, that's actually the concept of alternatives. > I have been working around this (in at least flatpak, glib2.0 and ostree > so far) by adding explicit dependencies on automake, and I've opened a > bug against dh-autoreconf asking the dependency to be changed to just > automake. However, given that the behaviour of other suites is to ignore > everything after the "|", I think it would be good if the aspcud scoring > used for experimental tried to avoid selecting non-preferred alternatives. > > The aspcud scoring appears to be set up via dsa-puppet > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/dsa-puppet.git/tree/modules/buildd/files/sbuild.conf > and is currently: > > -removed,-changed,-new,-count(solution,APT-Release:=/experimental/) > > which is why I'm reporting this bug to buildd.debian.org and not sbuild - > I think it's likely to be a problem with the optimization criteria more > than with aspcud or sbuild. Sorry, I don't know how to spell "if you see > foo|bar, prefer to install foo" in aspcud notation... There is no way to express that in aspcud notation. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
