Package: libldap2-dev Version: 2.5.4+dfsg-1~exp1 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap
Hi, I noticed that architecture cross bootstrap has issues with the libldap2-dev transitional package. When it comes around to building src:krb5, it sees a dependency on libldap2-dev and figures that there is a real libldap2-dev, but since it is Arch:all and implicitly M-A:no, it cannot satisfy krb5's dependency and gives up. What it does not realize is that libldap-dev will provide libldap2-dev (as openldap hasn't been built yet) and that therefore openldap should be built. The property we need here is that within the cross bootstrap package set, build-depends must point to real and eventually satisfiable packages. There are two ways of fixing this. One is changing krb5 to depend on libldap-dev as that's the real package now. The other is changing libldap2-dev to Arch:any. The latter fixes the problem for all users and arguably is more correct. In general transitional packages should have the same architecture (and the same Multi-Arch value) as the packages they refer to. Please convert libldap2-dev back to Arch:any. Helmut
