Re: update excuses: what does "but foo is screwed anyway"?
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:42:20PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:39:09PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > Another side issue: what does:
> >
> > * foo-package uploaded XX days ago, out of date by YY days!
> > * valid candidate (will be installed unless it's dependent upon
> > other buggy pkgs)
> >
> > mean? In particular, if it's a valid candidate, why hasn't it been
> > installed already?
>
> Because it depends on a package that is buggy and won't enter testing.
Can't the script traverse the dependency graph for us? Saying for
example:
valid candidate (but depends on libfoo, which depends on libbar, which
is not a valid candidate).
(No need to traverse the whole graph, I wouldn't think. Just
first-failure would do as a pointer).
Jules
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