On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:28:24PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Using the newest version of sbuild in sid, I'm still having this issue. > > I have read the discussion from the bug report log, but would like to > add this bit of an argument as to why alternative dependencies are > useful, and why sbuild should be able to resolve them.
As I mentioned earlier in this bug, the main problem isn't convincing us why they are needed, it's the lack of any patches to address this shortcoming in sbuild. More than anything else, we need someone to do the work to implement resolving of alternative build deps. If you have the time to look into it, a patch implementing alternative build-dep installation would be very much appreciated. The current sbuild code now has the ability to select alternative build dependency algorithms (so as to no affect backward compatibility and allow such experimentation), so it should be reasonably straightfoward to add an additional algorithm. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
