Bug#490427: libmail-box-perl: FTBFS: Unsatisfiable build-dependency: Default version of libscalar-list-utils-perl not sufficient, no suitable alternative found. I probably should dep-wait this one.

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Sat Jul 12 12:01:18 UTC 2008


On 12/07/08 at 13:33 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:22:09 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > > libscalar-list-utils-perl: non-matching version installed (~*=PROVIDED=*= ! >= 1.13)
> > > Default version of libscalar-list-utils-perl not sufficient, no suitable alternative found. I probably should dep-wait this one.
> > Please update the build-depends and drop the alternatives:
> > libscalar-list-utils-perl (>= 1.13) | perl (>= 5.8.2-2)
> 
> Good catch, libscalar-list-utils-perl doesn't exist anywhere between
> sarge and sid.
> 
> Still I don't understand why your build script fails with
> "no suitable alternative found", the alternative on "perl (>= 5.8.2-2)"
> looks ok to me.

That's because sbuild doesn't look at alternative build-deps. This is on
purpose, to make it less likely to build packages against different
packages on different packages.
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