Bug#448939: exim4: Please build-depend on libdb-dev instead of the virtual package libdb4.6-dev

[Mike O'Connor]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:14:09AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:54:05PM -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > pam build depends on libdb-dev not libdb4.6-dev which is what I'm
> > requesitng.
> 
> And how does that guarantee that an exim probably built weeks later
> has the same binary depends?

By build-depending on the same package as pam, instead of
build-depending on a virtual-package which is not guaranteed to be
satisfied by the same package.

Does the current situation (where exim build-depends on a different
package than pam does) somehow better guarantee that exim will have
the same binary depends?

stew
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