I assume this affects all platforms build-dep, openoffice.org needs a workaround see below
Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:38:22PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Build-Depends: bison (<= 1:1.75-1) | bison (>= 1:1.875a-1), debhelper (>= > 4.0.9) | debhelper (= 4.0.2.openoffice), flex | flex-old, libpam0g-dev | > libpam-dev, libxaw7-dev, tcsh, unzip, zip, g++-3.3 (>= 1:3.3.1-1) | g++-3.0 > [!powerpc], autoconf (>= 2.54), j2sdk1.3 [!s390], sharutils, libcrimson-java, > libxalan-java, libxalan2-java, libgtk2.0-dev, pkg-config, libpng12-dev | > libpng2-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libtiff3g-dev, libart-2.0-dev (>= 2.3.13), > imagemagick, xutils, libfontconfig1-dev, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.6-3) [sparc], > libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1) [powerpc], gimp-perl | gimp1.2-perl, xvfb, xbase-clients, > xfonts-base > > This is a known limitation of apt-get build-dep; it only attempts to install > the first alternative in a group. So if this |-expression is reversed, this > particular problem should be solved. See #214736 for details. > > -- > - mdz
