Is apt-get build-dep supposed to ignore pipes in the build-depends?

[Matthew Palmer]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:11:44AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Perhaps I missed something, but are pipes (as in "or") in the
> build-depends for a package a big no-no?

No, they're perfectly fine.

> I have a package build-depend on "libicu28-dev | libicu34-dev" and
> apt-get complains that libicu28-dev isn't installable, but that
> libicu34-dev replaces it...then errors out.  It seems like it should
> just be installing libicu34-dev instead.

Sounds like apt-get build-dep might not be smart enough to handle or'd
dependencies.  Try building in pbuilder, that has pretty good dependency
resolution code in it.

- Matt