On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:36:33PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> After taking a closer look, this seems to be all red herring.  Sbuild
> uses apt for resolving the build dependencies, and while apt prefers
> virtual packages over real ones, it has no problem to use the virtual
> one (libncurses-dev in this case) in case the real one is uninstallable
> or insufficient.
> 
> I guess I'll drop the transitional packages in an upload to experimental
> and see what happens with the pseudo-excuses[1].

cool!

> Filing bugs against reverse (build-)dependencies would be doable for
> libtinfo-dev, but for libncursesw5-dev (#1032740) and libncurses5-dev
> (for which you did not file a bug, for whatever reason) this is a

I did: #1032741

> non-starter due to the large number of them.

bug filing can be scripted ;)


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