Bug#501423: Britney error with the gossip package?

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 20:21 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> $ rmadison libloudmouth1-0
> ....
> libloudmouth1-0 |    1.4.0-1 |       testing | alpha, amd64, arm,
> armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
> libloudmouth1-0 |    1.4.2-1 |      unstable | alpha, amd64, arm,
> armel, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390,
> sparc
> 
> How did gossip migrate with Build-Depends on a version of
> libloudmouth1-0 that still does not exist in Lenny?

britney only considers installability, not buildability.

That is to say, if package A depends on "B (>= 2)" then an appropriate
version of B must (in the absence of hints to the contrary) exist in
testing, but if A /build/-depends on "B (>= 2)" then britney does not
care whether B exists in testing at all, yet alone with the correct
version.

Regards,

Adam