Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Regis Boudin
Hi, On Tue, March 6, 2007 06:34, Bart Martens wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 01:43 +, Regis Boudin wrote: >> Playing around with dependencies trees, I noticed there are quite a few >> obsolete Conflicts fields in the archive. Would it be worth starting a >> bit of cleanup after Etch is release

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:43:57AM +, Regis Boudin wrote: > Hi all, > > I might be completely wrong, but... > > Playing around with dependencies trees, I noticed there are quite a few > obsolete Conflicts fields in the archive. Would it be worth starting a > bit of cleanup after Etch is relea

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Regis Boudin
On Tue, March 6, 2007 09:34, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > great, are these results published somewhere? Trivial obsoleted conflicts > might > be removed via a wishlist bug. No actual result at the moment. I was playing with something not really related and noticed the impressive number on conflicts

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
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 conf

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Regis Boudin
On Tue, March 6, 2007 11:46, 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

Re: automatic testing of dist-upgrades (was: Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests)

2007-03-06 Thread François Déchelle
Filippo Giunchedi a écrit : [opening a new thread, since it was the original idea] On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:59:59PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I'm more worried about how you choose the environment you want to dist-upgrade. Various criteria that come to my mind (braindump): - base system

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Regis Boudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No actual result at the moment. I was playing with something not really > related and noticed the impressive number on conflicts in the > distribution, with many easily identifiable as very old packages. I just > preferred asking if it was worth looking a

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Ralf Treinen
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 E

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:04:46PM -, Regis Boudin wrote: > On Tue, March 6, 2007 11:46, 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 confli

Re: automatic testing of dist-upgrades (was: Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests)

2007-03-06 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Hi, On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:23:13PM +0100, François Déchelle wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the edos project, and there are I think 2 set of tools which can > be usefull: > - dependencies management tools, probably anla, but I don't know the > dependencies management tools enough in depth to giv