pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy thinks libmilter-dev is a virtual package

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 22 November 2008 09:55, Alban Deniz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm packaging for Ubuntu an application I'm developing, and I've
> encountered a problem I wasn't able find a solution in the docs.
>
> I'm getting error when attempting to create a binary package using
> pbuilder (entire output is below):
>
>         The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>           pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy: Depends: libmilter-dev which is
>         a virtual package.
>                                          Depends: libmilter1 which is a
>         virtual package.

In Hardy, libmilter is in Universe, you probably don't have that enabled in 
your pbuilder.

...
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, libmilter1,
> libmilter-dev, wget, gzip

Just build-dep on libmilter-dev.  It will depend on the correct version of 
libmilter.

...
> Recommends: sendmail, postfix

You want to make those alternative recommends.  In Ubuntu Postfix is the 
preferred MTA, so I'd suggest:

Recommends: postfix | sendmail

....

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Scott K