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.
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