On Monday, February 28, 2011 10:05:22 am Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first > alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends > on "adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (>= 7.5-1), sudo" and > timeout is only available in lenny and etch, thus piuparts cannot test > secvpn in squeeze, wheezy and sid. That's a bug in piuparts. > > Another popular example is a depends on "apache | apache2"... > > So I think it's also a bug in those packages, of which there are more then > 100 but less than 200. > (To my regret I have to admit there is another bug in piuparts and > http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/state-dependency-does-not-exist.html lists a > few packages incorrectly.) > > But, anyway, I believe that the first depends of an alternate depends > relation should be available in main and propose to file bugs about this. > > Do you agree this warrants a mass bug filing? I couldn't find this written > out in policy so these bugs would be wishlist, which probably would make > them not warrant a mass bug filing... > > Comments?
It seems to me not worth a mass bug filing. This doesn't seem like something that would affect user's systems. Is there a rationale for imposing this ordering other than puiparts can't deal with it? Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103012324.24545.deb...@kitterman.com
