Re: Unmet dependencies in slink

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> > Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > I made a quick check of the Packages file from slink and found
> > > these possible showstoppers:
> 
> I want to play too!
> 
> I wrote a chunk'o'apt code that generates a list of unmeetable depends,
> recommends and suggests across the entire available list. It accounts for
> virtual packages, OR groups and versioning. Here is my list for these
> sources:
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free  
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US  
> 
> For some reason it's way longer than the list Joey posted.. Also, if you
> try it with only hamm you get quite a long list.. hamm and slink combined
> is a -really- long list :>

I have only taken slink/main since that is what is important.  Also
I only have picked up show stoppers, these are Depends and Recommends.
An unmet Suggests ist silently ignored by dselect.  However I agree
that they need to be reduced, too.

Since you wrote some code, could you include a binary into the
apt package that does:

  a) Test for depends and/or recommends in a single Packages
     file

  b) Test for suggests in a single Packages file.

  c) Test for depends and/or recommends in a set of Packages
     files

  d) Test for Suggests in a set of Packages files

I'd like to have Depends, Recommends and Suggests be controllable
via command line.  The (list of) Packages should be provided on
the command line as well.

Please let it exit with 0 if no error was found and with something
else if something went wrong.

Thanks,

	Joey

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