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Re: [buildd@praetorius.debian.org: Log for given-back build of fische_3.2.2-1 on powerpc (dist=sid)]



On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:05:47PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi Wouter,
> 
> I'm quoting you in full below, because I think that d-wb-team is the
> right place for this.
> 
> Can you install libasound-dev on a powerpc machine? It seems that
> libasound2-dev should provide it, and that is in powerpc.
> 
> It rather seems that sbuild is having trouble talking to apt-get to find
> out what provides this virtual package:
> > E: Package 'libasound-dev' has no installation candidate
> > Package libasound-dev is a virtual package provided by:
> > apt-get failed.
> > Package installation failed
> 
> Unless someone verifies manually using apt-get on powerpc that the build
> dependencies are really not installable, I have to assume that this is
> not a bug with wanna-build's distcheck support.

This is a bug in the package.  There are several packages
providing the virtual package libasound-dev, and the package
should select one of those.

But it's annoying that edos is trying all the virtual packages
while that isn't the behaviour we want.


Kurt


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