Bug#374288: shishi: FTBFS: Conflicting build dependencies.

[Russ Allbery]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Elrond <address@hidden> writes:

>> Can we make that
>> 
>>      libtasn1-3-dev | libtasn1-2-dev
>> 
>> to get a slight chance for backporting?

> I've installed this.  I assume that libtasn1-3-dev will be the first
> choice when Debian's build robots build the package?

> Objections to do this from anyone else?

Unfortunately, I believe the buildds are allowed to basically pick a
random choice among a string of alternatives.  (I think the logic goes
that the buildd may already have one of the packages installed, and hence
the dependency may be satisfied before something like apt gets at it.)

It's probably a bit safer to use just the dependency for unstable and ask
people doing backports to locally modify the build dependency.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>