Merge lp:~dholbach/snapcraft/1497582 into lp:~snappy-dev/snapcraft/core

[Daniel Holbach]

use packages which actually provide virtual packages

[lp:~dholbach/snapcraft/1497582]

186. By Daniel Holbach on 2015-09-21

catch error

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

It looks like lp:~snappy-dev/snapcraft/more-apt already solved the problem.

Unmerged revisions

186. By Daniel Holbach on 2015-09-21

catch error

185. By Daniel Holbach on 2015-09-21

use packages which actually provide virtual packages

=== modified file 'snapcraft/repo.py'
--- snapcraft/repo.py	2015-09-07 20:23:57 +0000
+++ snapcraft/repo.py	2015-09-21 12:21:23 +0000
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@
                 if pkg in self.manifest_dep_names and pkg not in package_names:
                     continue
                 deps = set()
+                if self.apt_cache.is_virtual_package(pkg):
+                    try:
+                        pkg = self.apt_cache.get_providing_packages(pkg)[0].name
+                    except KeyError:
+                        raise PackageNotFoundError(pkg)
                 try:
                     candidate_pkg = self.apt_cache[pkg].candidate
                 except KeyError: