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

[Alban Deniz]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:13 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, that solved the problem.

> ...
> > 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.

Thanks again.

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

Okay.

> ....
> 
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu is generally a better 
> list for packaging questions.  You can subscribe to that list and your posts 
> won't be moderated like they are on ubuntu-devel.
> 

I'll switch to that list, thanks.

--Alban

> Scott K
>