Bug#655395: ITP: coinst -- computes the co-installability kernel of a deb or RPM distribution
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
* Package name : coinst
Version : 1.01-1
Upstream Author : Jérôme Vouillon <Jerome.Vouillon@pps.jussieu.fr>
* URL : http://coinst.irill.org
* License : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: OCaml
Description : computes the co-installability kernel of a deb or RPM distribution
This package is useful when you are interested in analyzing
co-installability of packages in a large package repository. A set
of packages is called co-installable if it can be extended to a set
that satisfies all inter-package relations (dependencies, conflicts,
etc.).
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This tool reduces a repository to a much smaller one, its so-called
co-installability kernel, that behaves exactly the same as far as
co-installability of package is concerned. This is achieved by
- dropping all relations that are not relevant for this purpose
- identifying all packages that behave the same.
The kernel is typically orders of magnitude smaller than the original
repository.
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