On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:31:33PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (2021-11-17 13:06:09) > > > 1. "they are not normally used by the Debian autobuilders" should instead > > > be "they are never used by the Debian autobuilders" or it should state > > > when they are used and when they are not > > > > If the base system on top of which the build-dependencies are to be > > installed already include one of the alternative then it is used in > > preference to the others. > > But this is not what happens on the buildds. Sbuild munges all alternatives in > B-D, B-D-I and B-D-A irrespective of the packages that are already installed > and only passes the resulting meta-package to apt which cannot know anymore of > the original alternatives.
... but it does not remove the already installed alternatives, so the Alternative is not used even though the alternative package is installed ? This footnote might not be the best place to document the precise behaviour of autobuilders (which currently is outside the scope of policy). On the other hand, having a fully specified build process could reduce build variability and make builds more reproducible. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
