On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 22:45 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 08:45:07PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > It won't work on the buildds, however, whether pbuilder handles it or > > not. [...] > 1) If I build the package in a clean chroot, it will work because apt > will install one of the providers. [...] > > libcurl4-dev is a virtual package with multiple providers, and the > > buildd software won't automatically pick between them, so the same > > situation will recur. > > Given that both apt and pbuilder easily cope with the situation, this > sounds like a missing feature in the buildd software.
Which version of apt? 0.8.13 certainly doesn't appear to "easily cope" - on a system with none of the providers installed: $ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libcurl4-dev is a virtual package provided by: libcurl4-nss-dev 7.21.4-1 libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.21.4-1 You should explicitly select one to install. E: Package 'libcurl4-dev' has no installation candidate Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
