Package: wanna-build Severity: normal Sometimes packages go round and round on the builds, trying to be built repeatedly, because wanna-build thinks that the build-deps are availbale, but when sbuild tries the build it finds them unsatisfiable.
This appears to happen when Build-Depends has alternatives. It seems that wanna-build considers it OK if any of the alternatives are available, even though buildds only take the first option. My current example is openmeeg. This build-deps on libtiff4-dev | libtiff-dev and has tried to build 33 times in the last 8 days, https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=openmeeg&ver=2.0.0.dfsg-5.1&arch=arm64 always failing with: Install openmeeg build dependencies (apt-based resolver) -------------------------------------------------------- ... The following packages have unmet dependencies: sbuild-build-depends-openmeeg-dummy : Depends: libtiff4-dev but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. apt-get failed. ------------------- Surely wanna-build should be setting this to BD-uninstallable, not needs-build? I've seen the same problem with packages build-depping on emacs23 | emacsen (emacs23 has never been available on arm64). https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=doxymacs&arch=arm64&ver=1.8.0-6&stamp=1412954802 The following packages have unmet dependencies: sbuild-build-depends-doxymacs-dummy : Depends: emacs23 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. apt-get failed. The build-deps are: emacs23 | emacsen Is this a wanna-build bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org