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Bug#459873: python-apt: Unmet dependencies



Quoting Pierre Habouzit (madcoder@debian.org):

> > Wajig depends on python-apt but trying to install it I get:
> > 
> >  python-apt: Depends: libapt-inst-libc6.6-6-1.1 but it is not installable
> >               Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6 but it is not installable
> 
>   Yes, python-apt needs a binNMU as do the other apt usual suspects.


This situation triggers a wild (and maybe not sooriginal...) idea in
my mind:

This APT upload was planned and announced for a few days. Otavio
mentioned it.

However, of course, all maintainers of packages that would need a
binNMU can only request that binNMU when the planned apt package is
uploaded, not before. Or, more precisely, the binNMU cannot be
scheduled before the upload.

However, if binNMUs could specify a package/version combination to
"wait" for, they could then be scheduled *before* the package that
triggers the binNMU is uploaded. Then, the autobuilders would build
the binNMU only when that package reaches the archive for their
architecture.

I hope this is clear (harder to explain then the real idea,
indeed)....

Here, all packages that require a binNMU because of apt 0.7.10 upload
could have been scheduled *before* the upload with "Needs: apt (>=0.7.10)"
or something similar....


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