Hi, I just hacked some scripts to check for broken Depends and such in sid:
| Number of packages with broken | Pre-Depends | | ALL | alpha | arm | i386 | m68k | powerpc | sparc | | | 5 | | 5 | | 5 | 5 | | | | Depends | | ALL | alpha | arm | i386 | m68k | powerpc | sparc | | | 1299 | 291 | 900 | 261 | 943 | 912 | 321 | | | Recommends | | ALL | alpha | arm | i386 | m68k | powerpc | sparc | | | 66 | 24 | 46 | 13 | 37 | 29 | 28 | | | | Broken Priorities: | | | ALL | alpha | arm | i386 | m68k | powerpc | sparc | | | 182 | 149 | 101 | 168 | 109 | 114 | 134 | | | Depending on OldLibs: | | ALL | alpha | arm | i386 | m68k | powerpc | sparc | | | 166 | 51 | 54 | 98 | 91 | 58 | 32 | I hope that the total number of broken Depends will become a lot smaller once arm, powerpc and m68k catch up. Some of the i386 brokeness is due to libstdc++2.10 beeing removed - simple recompiles should suffice. But there are still a lot of real bugs there. On http://people.debian.org/~weasel/debcheck/ you can find more details and a list of all offending packages. The info is updated daily. Broken Priorities are all serious bugs btw: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch2.html#s2.2: } Priorities packages MUST NOT depend on packages with } lower priority values (excluding build-time dependencies). } In order to ensure this, the priorities of one or more } packages must be adjusted. Is there some policy wrt oldlibs? yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : By professionals, | `. `' for professionals http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/
