On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:40:52 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > resolvers to strip the alternatives (after arch reduction), which > will make them behave pretty much exactly like the old internal > resolver, but without its bugs. This will leave maintainers free to > use alternative dependencies, but like now they will be ignored. > What we can do though, is make the use of alternatives configurable > in sbuild, so you will be able to make use of them when building for > other suites e.g. backports. This will disable the stripping. > What's the purpose of doing this after arch reduction?
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