Re: dependency checker for archive needed
I've put a preliminary version of a dependency checker in ~klee/dpkg/
on master.debian.org. There are a few editable options in main.py;
use 'python main.py' to execute it. Example output from the program
is in ~klee/dpkg/check.log on master.debian.org.
Open problems are:
* It doesn't yet consider the possibility of two required packages
conflicting with each other. I expect this to be moderately tricky
because of the interaction between conflicts and '|'-clauses in
dependencies
* It needs a man page / command line argument parser. These should
be easy.
Many of the warnings it generates are because of the apparent
requirement that packages that depend on packages in 'non-free' be
placed in 'contrib' only and not in 'non-free'. (Though I may be
interpreting this wrongly; see my next message for more information).
I hope to be uploading a final, cleaned-up version sometime this
weekend. In the meantime, feel free to send patches / bug reports to
me directly.
P.S.: My apologies to anyone on this list who's been waiting for me to
respond to E-mail / bug reports. I unexpectedly found myself witout
good E-mail access for the past couple of weeks, and am busy going
through the backlog now. I hope to be through all of it by the end of
the week.
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