Bug#958988: key packages script does not take account of virtual packages.

2024-08-10 Thread Gioele Barabucci

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On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:55:50 +0100 peter green  wrote:

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The debian rust team makes heavy use of virtual packages to reduce the number 
of real packages in the archive (and in some cases the number of trips through 
new) while retaining flexibility to split if necessary (either for multiple 
versions of a crate or where featuresets that previously had the same 
dependencies diverge).

Unfortunately the key packages script does not take virtual packages into 
account. The result of this is that a large number of rust packages that ought 
to be on the key packages list (as a result of firefox depending on cbindgen 
which build-depends on a bunch of rust packages) are not on there.

Is this still the case?

Nowadays https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi shows many 
instances of


- reason: librust-ff-derive-dev
depends librust-addchain-0.2+default-dev
provided by librust-addchain-dev
- source: rust-addchain

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Gioele Barabucci



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Bug #958988 [qa.debian.org] key packages script does not take account of 
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