* Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the install...

Author: mdz
Date: 2003-10-29 17:56:31 GMT
* Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the installed package
doesn't meet version requirements (Closes: #214736)

cmdline/apt-get.cc

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // -*- mode: cpp; mode: fold -*-
 // Description								/*{{{*/
-// $Id: apt-get.cc,v 1.143 2003/09/24 04:00:25 mdz Exp $
+// $Id: apt-get.cc,v 1.144 2003/10/29 17:56:31 mdz Exp $
 /* ######################################################################
    
    apt-get - Cover for dpkg
@@ -2156,11 +2156,18 @@ bool DoBuildDep(CommandLine &CmdL)
                            break;
                  }
                  if (CV.end() == true)
+		   if (hasAlternatives)
+		   {
+		      continue;
+		   }
+		   else
+		   {
                       return _error->Error(_("%s dependency for %s cannot be satisfied "
                                              "because no available versions of package %s "
                                              "can satisfy version requirements"),
                                            Last->BuildDepType((*D).Type),Src.c_str(),
                                            (*D).Package.c_str());
+		   }
             }
             else
             {

debian/changelog

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ apt (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
       version 1.3 from debian-doc cvs
     - Create doc/es/.cvsignore
   * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix
-    pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::Label() to correcctly refer to File->Label
+    pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::Label() to correctly refer to File->Label
     rather than File->Origin (Closes: #213311)
   * Add missing comma and space to German translation of "downgraded"
     (Closes: #213975)
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ apt (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
   * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
     made it tricky to type.  Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
     <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #217152)
+  * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the installed package
+    doesn't meet version requirements (Closes: #214736)
 
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