Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-05-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 01:21:54AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:43:31PM +0200, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: > > Simon Huggins wrote: > > > I have a feeling you want to discover update_output.txt > > update_output.txt says: > > trying: cfitsio > > skipped: cfitsio (1144+9) > >

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:11:41PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > 4) What is the best way to find out why cfitsio depends on gcc-3.3? > > looking in the Packages files? > > (do in on auric directly or d/l them and do it at home) > > Where can I download these files? ("P

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:43:31PM +0200, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote: > > I have a feeling you want to discover update_output.txt > update_output.txt says: > trying: cfitsio > skipped: cfitsio (1144+9) > got: 13+0: a-4:a-9 > * arm: fv, libcfitsio-dev, libcfitsio2 > If I'm r

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-25 Thread Björn Stenberg
Rene Engelhard wrote: > > 4) What is the best way to find out why cfitsio depends on gcc-3.3? > looking in the Packages files? > (do in on auric directly or d/l them and do it at home) Where can I download these files? ("Packages" is a tricky word to search for...) Thanks. -- Björn

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-25 Thread Björn Stenberg
Simon Huggins wrote: > I have a feeling you want to discover update_output.txt Thanks, I have looked at it before but apparently not enough. Some followup questions: update_output.txt says: trying: cfitsio skipped: cfitsio (1144+9) got: 13+0: a-4:a-9 * arm: fv, libcfitsio-dev, libcfitsio

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Björn Stenberg wrote: > 1) Debcheck often reports "Package declares a build time dependency on [pkg] > which cannot be statisfied on [port]." Must all such build time dependencies > be resolved before a package is accepted into testing? No. testing doesn't care about Builddeps. and you can sa

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:55:31PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > I know about the five rules, valid candidates, the excuses page(s) and > packages.qa.debian.org. I'm mostly looking at valid candidates and there are > a few things that I don't understand: I have a feeling you want to discover upda

Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Björn Stenberg
Hi. I'm trying to understand the dependency system so I can find the complete and correct answer to questions in the form "why is the latest version of package X not in testing yet". I've been annoying some of you with wrong assumptions previously, sorry about that. I'll avoid that this time and j