Re: contrib overrides for testing

2004-02-27 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi Colin, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've had a bunch of noise in update_output for a while regarding > packages in contrib that depend on packages not in Debian (as they're > allowed to do). Some of these come from non-free source or installer > packages; some are outside Debian

Re: contrib overrides for testing

2004-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:02AM +0100, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > a list of manual overrides in whose existence we can mind-control the > > testing scripts into believing. > > How is this done, in practice? It isn't yet. :) -- Colin Watson

Re: contrib overrides for testing

2004-02-25 Thread Björn Stenberg
Colin Watson wrote: > a list of manual overrides in whose existence we can mind-control the > testing scripts into believing. How is this done, in practice? Can I find these virtual packages on ftp-master? I'm asking, of course, because my testing examination script needs this information to rem

contrib overrides for testing

2004-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
We've had a bunch of noise in update_output for a while regarding packages in contrib that depend on packages not in Debian (as they're allowed to do). Some of these come from non-free source or installer packages; some are outside Debian altogether. Either way, testing doesn't like them, and I tal