Public bug reported:
`aptitude build-dep' fails on some packages, apparently when one of the
build dependencies is a virtual package.
For instance, `aptitude build-dep timidity' fails with the error
message:
Unable to satisfy the build-depends: Build-Depends: libncurses-dev
Unable to apply some actions, aborting
Now timidity does have libncurses-dev as a build dependency, but it's a
virtual package, which on my system is provided by libncurses5-dev. As
it happens this is already installed (version 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04) but
aptitude doesn't see to recognize that.
`apt-get build-dep timidity' works correctly, but it would be nice to be
able to use aptitude instead. For instance, I'd like to be able to
--add-user-tag when doing build-dep, so that I can easily remove all
those packages later.
Another example is `aptitude build-dep gnuplot' which fails on the
build-depends liblua5.1-dev (provided by liblua5.1-0-dev).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: aptitude 0.8.10-6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 22 11:21:32 2018
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-23 (122 days ago)
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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aptitude build-dep fails on virtual packages
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