Bug#786601: sbcl: ftbfs when locales-all is installed but not locales

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:38:56PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Source: sbcl
> Version: 2:1.2.11-2
> Severity: serious
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: environment
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
> that sbcl fails to build from source, when when locales-all is installed but 
> not locales:
> [...]
>
> I'm not really sure atm how to this should be expressed, as build-conflicts 
> does not exist.

Hmm. What do you mean by "build-conflicts does not exist"?
It does!

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps

So, in this case,

Build-Conflicts: locales-all

would probably fix the FTBFS bug the easy way.

However, I wonder why locales-all has a "Provides: locales" at all if
it is not a complete drop-in replacement for locales.

Thanks.