Control: severity -1 important Hi,
On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 06:44:49 +0200 Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > sbuild splits the implicit (build-essential) and explicit Build-Depends into > two dummy packages and installs them separately. In theory, that can cause > the latter to remove the former, but I haven't observed this. When > installing the latter fails, sbuild launches dose by default to explain the > problem. While doing so, it tends to produce installation sets that lack > build-essential as the former package is not passed to dose. This issue can > currently be triggered by cross building lp-solve. > > I argue that the dose3 explainer should ensure that build-essential is kept. this is not only a problem of the explainer. This is a conceptual issue with the way sbuild install packages. Instead of installing them step by step, it should create a single big meta dummy package that contains everything and install that. This would also solve the issue of the explainer. I'm gonna postpone fixing this a bit but increase the severity because this is an issue that I want to see fixed. Thanks! cheers, josch
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