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

[Scott Ritchie]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 20:37 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 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
> 
I guess this is a bug in apt, then.  I'll file one in malone.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie