[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#873596: Bug#873596: avahi FTCBFS: uninstallable python Build-Depends, fails to figure out what distribution Debian is

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.09.2017 um 20:12 schrieb Helmut Grohne:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 07:18:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Given that python-all-dev already depends on libpython-all-dev,
>> shouldn't python-all-dev ensure to pull in the correct version?
> 
> Yes, python-all-dev depends on libpython-all-dev, but we want the build
> architecture python-all-dev and the host architecture libpython-all-dev.
> Thus the dependency doesn't get us the correct version. Note the ":any".
> 
> Yes, this is weired. No, I don't understand why we didn't make
> dependencies on python-all-dev just work (by swapping python-all-dev and
> libpython-all-dev and reversing the dependency).
> 

I still don't understand why python-all-dev allows the combination with
libpython-all-dev which apparently results in a non-working python
installation and why working around that in individual packages by
specifying additional build depends is the correct way to go.


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