On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:36:33PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > After taking a closer look, this seems to be all red herring. Sbuild > uses apt for resolving the build dependencies, and while apt prefers > virtual packages over real ones, it has no problem to use the virtual > one (libncurses-dev in this case) in case the real one is uninstallable > or insufficient. > > I guess I'll drop the transitional packages in an upload to experimental > and see what happens with the pseudo-excuses[1].
cool!
> Filing bugs against reverse (build-)dependencies would be doable for
> libtinfo-dev, but for libncursesw5-dev (#1032740) and libncurses5-dev
> (for which you did not file a bug, for whatever reason) this is a
I did: #1032741
> non-starter due to the large number of them.
bug filing can be scripted ;)
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