On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:53:55AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Steve Langasek, le Sat 22 Mar 2014 12:43:56 -0700, a écrit : > > Um, no, build-depending on virtual packages is absolutely allowed. > > Yes, but something has to make the buildd pick up one package which > provides it. It won't decide by itself which one to choose.
Actually, it will; but the reason why we recommend people don't "just" use virtual dependencies is that it may pick one semi-randomly, which makes the result unpredictable (and that's not a good feature). -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- 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/20140323091005.ge26...@grep.be