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Re: pep8 build depends on jessie

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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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pep8 build depends on jessie Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> - 2016-05-01 12:30 +0200
  Re: pep8 build depends on jessie Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-05-01 14:00 +0200
  Re: pep8 build depends on jessie Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2016-05-01 14:10 +0200
  Re: pep8 build depends on jessie Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-05-01 14:50 +0200
    Re: pep8 build depends on jessie Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2016-05-02 01:10 +0200
      Re: pep8 build depends on jessie Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-05-02 05:20 +0200
        Re: pep8 build depends on jessie Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2016-05-02 05:40 +0200

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