[Bug 2147638] Re: Create a virtual package for coreutils

[Manfred Hampl]

There is a strict dependency of build-essential on coreutils-from-
uutils, in version 12.12ubuntu2

The changelog tells:

  * Temporarily hack coreutils-from-uutils into build-essential, to allow
    coreutils Depends: coreutils-from-uutils | coreutils-from-gnu while
    forcing builds to use the uutils variant.

but the rules file has only a dependency on coreutils-from-uutils
(without ORing coreutils-from-gnu).

Is this a temporary workaround or a bug?

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Title:
  Create a virtual package for coreutils

Status in build-essential package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in coreutils-from package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It's very handy to install build-essential meta package on dev
  systems, but it seems to have a hard dependency on coreutils-from-
  uutils.  When I replaced it by coreutils-from-gnu by running:

  sudo apt install coreutils-from-gnu coreutils-from-uutils- --allow-
  remove-essential

  It ended up removing build-essential meta package from my system.

  It would be useful to have a virtual package for coreutils that accept
  any of the available flavors and make users' lives easier to replace
  one by another.

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