Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > Russ Allbery, le Sat 22 Mar 2014 17:12:49 -0700, a écrit :
>> Only if there is more than one package providing the same virtual >> package. If there is only one, the buildds will pick that one. > I don't think so. See how libjpeg-dev has been handled for some time. > If it was true, then we'd have non-deterministic builds depending one > what package happens to be available. That's why only one package Provides the virtual package name when they're used for this purpose. It would indeed be a bug if multiple packages provided the same virtual package name at the same time, but it works if that is not the case. This approach is a simpler way of implementing the same thing that gcc-defaults and boost-defaults do with a separate source package. It lets multiple versions of a library exist in the archive at the same time and for most packages to build-depend on the current "default," which can then be changed by moving the Provides from one package to another and then rebuilding everything with binNMUs. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87lhw1rayu....@windlord.stanford.edu
