Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The recent announce from Steve has reminded me of something I wanted
to ask about the package name change from libmysqlclient-dev to
libmysqlclient12-dev made in November:
Do packages still having Build-Depends: libmysqlclient-dev build
from source? Trying apt-get build-dep on them results on apt-get
being undecided about which libmysqlclient-dev to install.
Do buildds handle this gracefully?
Buildds handle that but not gracefully. The actualy -dev package the
buildd uses will be random for all intents and purposes as long as
there are two packages (or even just two versions) of the provided
package available.
Under the line Build-Depends must be against real packages. Worst
case, if you must have the virtual package, you must provide a real
dummy package that Depends on the virtual package to ensure buildds
and apt-get work at all. But that's still highly frowned upon due to
being somewhat random in what gets used for builds.
MfG
Goswin
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