On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:41:07PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:43:24PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > > The first sorts packages according to which package has the highest > > number of other packages directly depend on it. Top-3: python2.3, > > kdelibs, qt-x11-free. > > > The second sorts packages according to which package "stalls" the > > greatest number of other packages, via dependencies in more than one > > level. Top-3: python2.3, libxml2 and libxslt. > > Yep, and libxml2 is also a dependency of libxslt. But of course, > neither of these are packages that need direct attention; the one is > held up waiting for the other, which is only waiting because it's too > young.
And, when libxml2 isn't too young, installing it into testing will break libxslt1-python2.2 in testing, so we'll need to upgrade to libxslt1-python2.3, which needs - you guessed it - python2.3. :) > It's the related packages that need to be examined and put in order > (by removals or NMUs), and there's no good way to figure out right now > which packages those are, short of digging through the dependency tree > (or running simulations). What he said. Top stalls are useful but they often really only point you at areas of work. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
