Hi, Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-01-27 16:15:17) > I suspect that's not really the case - that instead apt tools might pick at > random.
no, apt does not pick at random. The apt solver prefers the first alternative. > It is my understanding that build daemons _ignore_ secondary entries > exactly to avoid such ambiguity. More precisely: not only build daemons but sbuild (even if you run it locally) strips out all but the first alternative for Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Depends-Arch, with the exception of those alternatives that name the same package as the first alternative. Thus, this does *not* have an effect on alternatives in binary packages. Thanks! cheers, josch
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