On 2016-05-01 20:21:26, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > If I try to build a package on Jessie using sbuild that has > "python-pep8 | pep8" in the build depends, it gives me the > following error: > > --- cut --- > Installing build dependencies > Reading package lists... > Building dependency tree... > Reading state information... > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > sbuild-build-depends-shortuuid-dummy : Depends: python-pep8 but it is not > installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > apt-get failed. > E: Package installation failed > Not removing build depends: cloned chroot in use > --- cut --- > > Why isn't it falling back to installing pep8 when python-pep8 is not > available? Isn't this the expected behaviour? Or have I got something > wrong?
That's expected behavior. sbuild only considers the first alternative. Regards -- Sebastian Ramacher
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