On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Friday 3 August 2007 10:30, Adriaan Peeters wrote: > > It would be nice to be able to check reverse depends without an up to > > date distribution installation. So please add reverse depends to the > > packages.qa.d.o and/or packages.d.o sites. > > I've been thinking about this before and I definately think it would be > useful > if one could easily access a package's reverse dependencies from the PTS.
Adding reverse build-dependencies should be easy as everything is generated based on the "Sources" files. However, reverse dependencies on binaries is going to be a lot more complicated... as it depends on the architecture, and you'll have to download and parse the "Packages" files (which is currently not done). And selecting a single arch and hoping that the rest is in sync will at least create problems on some arch-specific packages. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
