Hi, >I'm thinking how to make the Build-Depends fits both sid/stretch and
>jessie-backports. >Whether the following is good enough? or appending the version is better? > >Build-Depends: asciidoc-base | asciidoc backporting asciidoc should be the right solution here (or reverting the change for backports, but since the affected packages are many, I think a backport is preferred) Alternative dependencies are not evaluated in Debian build machines. G.