Bug#435794: packages.qa.debian.org: please add reverse depends
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Friday 3 August 2007 10:30, Adriaan Peeters wrote:
> > It would be nice to be able to check reverse depends without an up to
> > date distribution installation. So please add reverse depends to the
> > packages.qa.d.o and/or packages.d.o sites.
>
> I've been thinking about this before and I definately think it would be useful
> if one could easily access a package's reverse dependencies from the PTS.
Adding reverse build-dependencies should be easy as everything is
generated based on the "Sources" files.
However, reverse dependencies on binaries is going to be a lot more
complicated... as it depends on the architecture, and you'll have to
download and parse the "Packages" files (which is currently not done).
And selecting a single arch and hoping that the rest is in sync will at
least create problems on some arch-specific packages.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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