Hello, On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:23PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/03/07 at 07:34 +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > I think that it's difficult to find an approach for an efficient > > all-packages review about old/obsolete conflicts. > > it might be interesting to talk to the EDOS people about that. It's > possible that their tools could help to find obsolete conflict > relationships easily.
Thanks for having thought of us :-) However, I think that in this case the edos tool will not be of much help. Our dependency checker is rather aimed at analysing long depndency/conflict chains in a distribution. Here, the problem is rather a local one: in every package, is there any relation to another package that is obsolete? An ad-hoc parser for the Package file should be sufficient here. BTW, I think that the cleanup should also apply to positive relations (dependencies, suggests, recommends). For instance, if package a depend on package b (>= 0.0.1) and if we are beyond 0.0.1 for ages then we should drop that constraint. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
