On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:45 PM, John Vivirito <gnomefr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/12/10 12:36, John Vivirito wrote: >> hi I was doing some installs and i found that some source >> packages have recommends that we do not supply in archives and >> some that have no installation candidate. One example is >> firmware-linux and i cant find the source package that >> recommended it. Also if we provide recommend packages that are >> not in archives we are telling users " we do not have this >> package but feel free to get it from somewhere else" >> AFAIK we do not support packages found outside of our archives. >> >> Now if this is left overs from Debian's packages i think we >> should either package the recommends or remove them from >> source. The one way i know how to find out source packages is >> to look while packaging/updating the packages, or maybe have a >> patch that searches and removes them. >> If someone knows a better way or a way to make a patch or add >> it in the rules file. I would go with a patch only because >> during merges we can keep them intact and not have to redo it >> for every merge. >> I do not have time for Lucid to look into this much further so >> if someone has any ideas or can draft up a patch please let me >> know. >> > Sorry i had typo in address first time but here is the full post. > > also i reported a bug on this it is bug #506528 > here is the link: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/506528
This is something we already track. See the debcheck resilts on qa.ubuntuwire.com: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/debcheck/debcheck.py?dist=lucid&list=relationship-Recommends&arch=ANY - Andrew SB -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
