improve the check for purely virtuals as provided packages aren't

purely virtual and shouldn't error out cause of that

diff --git a/cmdline/apt-get.cc b/cmdline/apt-get.cc
index b433a79..b14206f 100644 (file)
--- a/cmdline/apt-get.cc
+++ b/cmdline/apt-get.cc
@@ -3004,7 +3004,7 @@ bool DoBuildDep(CommandLine &CmdL)
            else
               Pkg = Cache->FindPkg(D->Package);
 
-           if (Pkg.end() == true || Pkg->VersionList == 0)
+           if (Pkg.end() == true || (Pkg->VersionList == 0 && Pkg->ProvidesList == 0))
             {
                if (_config->FindB("Debug::BuildDeps",false) == true)
                     cout << " (not found)" << (*D).Package << endl;

diff --git a/test/integration/test-bug-683786-build-dep-on-virtual-packages b/test/integration/test-bug-683786-build-dep-on-virtual-packages
index 83d184a..246bd2e 100755 (executable)
--- a/test/integration/test-bug-683786-build-dep-on-virtual-packages
+++ b/test/integration/test-bug-683786-build-dep-on-virtual-packages
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ insertpackage 'unstable' 'make-po-debconf-pure-virtual' 'armel' '1' 'Depends: po
 insertpackage 'unstable' 'po-debconf' 'amd64' '1'
 insertsource 'unstable' 'diffutils' 'any' '1' 'Build-Depends: texi2html'
 
+insertpackage 'unstable' 'libselinux1-dev' 'amd64' '1' 'Provides: libselinux-dev'
+insertsource 'unstable' 'sed' 'any' '1' 'Build-Depends: libselinux-dev'
+
 setupaptarchive
 
 testequal 'Package: po-debconf:armel
@@ -42,3 +45,12 @@ E: Build-Depends dependency for dash cannot be satisfied because the package po-
 testequal 'Reading package lists...
 Building dependency tree...
 E: Build-Depends dependency for diffutils cannot be satisfied because the package texi2html cannot be found' aptget build-dep -aarmel diffutils -s
+
+testequal "Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+Note, selecting 'libselinux1-dev' instead of 'libselinux-dev'
+The following NEW packages will be installed:
+  libselinux1-dev
+0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Inst libselinux1-dev (1 unstable [amd64])
+Conf libselinux1-dev (1 unstable [amd64])" aptget build-dep sed -s