Hi Davide, On 09/11/14 at 09:55 +0100, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > >>>>> LN == Lucas Nussbaum [2014-11-9] > > LN> Source: auctex > LN> Version: 11.87-2 > LN> Severity: serious > LN> Tags: jessie sid > LN> User: debian...@lists.debian.org > LN> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20141108 qa-ftbfs > LN> Justification: FTBFS in jessie on amd64 > > LN> Hi, > > LN> During a rebuild of all packages in jessie (in a jessie chroot, not a > LN> sid chroot), your package failed to build on amd64. > > LN> Relevant part (hopefully): > > [...] > > >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: > >> sbuild-build-depends-auctex-dummy : Depends: emacs23 but it is not > >> installable > >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > >> apt-get failed. > > Hi Lucas, > > I do no quite understand: auctex Build-Dependes-Indep has "emacs23 | > emacs24 | emacs-snapshot", of which emacs24 is installable in jessie. > What's the relevance of emacs23 (and emacs-snapshot) not being in > jessie? > > I can remove emacs23 for jessie, but I would like to keep emacs-snapshot > for people who might want to rebuild auctex on their system and have but > emacs-snapshot installed. > > N.B.: emacs-snapshot is not in Debian, but there are repositories for it > and AFAIK people do use it.
sbuild (which is used on the buildds) only uses the first alternatives in build-dependencies in order to provide reproducible builds. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
