Ivan Kohler wrote: > tags 470436 + moreinfo > thanks > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:12:37AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> Package: libcrypt-eksblowfish-perl >> Version: 0.003-4 >> Severity: serious >> User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20080310 qa-ftbfs >> Justification: FTBFS on i386 >> >> Hi, >> >> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on >> i386. >> >> Relevant part: >>> ** Using build dependencies supplied by package: >>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libmodule-build-perl, perl (>= >> 5.8.4-8), perl-base (>= 5.10) | libxsloader-perl > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > perl-base 5.10 is not installable from sid (just yet), but > libxsloader-perl is... > >>> Checking for already installed source dependencies... >>> debhelper: missing >>> Using default version 6.0.7 >>> libmodule-build-perl: missing >>> perl: already installed (5.8.8-12 >= 5.8.4-8 is satisfied) >>> perl-base: non-matching version installed (5.8.8-12 ! >= 5.10) >>> Default version of perl-base not sufficient, no suitable alternative found. >>> I probably should dep-wait this one. > > Shouldn't the build install the libxsloader-perl alternative instead of > erroring out?
The reason it does not try the alternative is that we want to have predictable builds: alternative build dependencies are a no go in that regard. The autobuilders will always just take the first build dependency listed... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
