On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:56:59AM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > tags 614413 +wontfix > thank you > > Hi, > > just to reconfirm our position - I'm here with Sean and Raphael. (And > BTW: Roger, very good work on that report, we just don't agree with > the conclusion ;)).
Hi Ondřej, That's fine. I don't know if you saw the discussion on -devel and -policy, but I have since revised this opinion in light of the discussion, and this isn't a bug at all. Feel free to close it entirely :) We subsequently adjusted the apt resolver to behave in the same way as the internal resolver; that is, it prunes all alternatives and only considers the first one, making it perfectly acceptable to use alternatives. (The behaviour is configurable; aptitude considers all alternatives by default, so the alternatives can be used when building e.g. experimental and backports, but won't be used for unstable.) The only known difference now is that internal would skip the first alternative if any of the alternatives were already installed. apt will still require the first to be present. This difference will only be seen if building in a dirty build environment, and nowadays we use clean chroot snapshots so it won't be seen in practice. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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