On Friday, 22 April 2016 17:09:40 CEST Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Control: reopen -1
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:06:27 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?T3R0byBLZWvDpGzDpGluZW4=?= > <o...@seravo.fi> wrote: > > Amarok defines as build dependency: > > Build-Depends-Indep: mysql-server-core-5.6 | mysql-server-core > > This should be changed to: > > Build-Depends-Indep: mysql-server-core-5.6 | virtual-mysql-server-core > That has been implemented, but that's the wrong approach. > The buildds only consider the first alternative. This will break once > mysql-5.6 gets replaced by mysql-5.7 (or whatever else). > This will break in stretch in case mysql-5.6 leaves stretch. > And even if secondary alternatives would be considered by the buildds - > which provider of virtual-mysql-server-core should be installed? There > is probably more than one ... > So in this case you would really want a generic real package as first > alternative: > Build-Depends(-Indep): default-mysql-server-core | virtual-mysql-server-core > except that we currently don't have default-mysql-server-core ... Would you mind cloning this bug and reassigning it to the mysql maintainers, so we either get a default-mysql-server-core to build depend on or some other valid solution. Happy hacking, -- "Nothing ever goes away." -- Commoner's Law of Ecology Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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