Bug#840094: blends-dev: Does not recognize multiline dependencies
Hi Andreas and Bas,
On 10.11.2016 08:45, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:27:13PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 11/09/2016 03:35 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>> If you (and Bas and other readers here) think we should fix the issue
>>> right now I'm fine if you apply the patch below and we should seriously
>>> test the metapackage creation of each Blend *before* 2016-12-05.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I think supporting the deb822 format should be a Blends release goal for
>> buster,
>
> I fully agree. I admit I did way less for blends-dev than I intended to
> do but other tasks that felt more urgent occupied all my Debian time.
>
>> it's indeed to late in the stretch dev cycle in my opinion.
>
> That would mean to lower the severity of #840094. Ole, are you OK with
> this?
No, I am not. The tool gives wrong results, and it does so silently. If
I would not have discovered this by chance, the Debian Astro tasks
packages were still wrong and would have stayed so in Stretch. I don't
know about other blends, whether they ever checked the metapackages --
others still may have missing tasks as well, just because their
maintainers read the docs and trust the debian-blends package. And you
can't just change the specs in the last minute.
And, if the package is in Stretch, people will start their new blend
with exactly this package, again running into this trouble.
I would really propose to fix that before Stretch. It just can't be that
difficult. Nobody has a Perl specialist who can have a look?
(Oh, and can we have Python for the Next Generation blends-dev? This is
at least what I understand, and there is already a parser for rfc822)
Best regards
Ole
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