On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:50:58PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Rene Engelhard, on Tue 05 Jan 2016 21:43:33 +0100, wrote: > > So that it will immediately fail when something eventually picks > > up the experimental packages (as experimental buildds right now do in some > > situations)? > > ? No, experimental buildds only pick from experimental what is not > available from sid. If something is available from sid, they will pick > it up from there, even if experimental has a newer version.
That is demonstrateable untrue since the resolver switch a few times ago. And yes, the respective people know and a fix is in the works. > This is a different thing: buildds install real packages, yes, and don't > want to install virtual packages. But this is completely independent > from sid vs unstable. OK, true, I misremembered. My bad. Regards, Rene