Re: Some questions about dependencies
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:12:36PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:27:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > "a-35" means that after experimentally adding ocaml to testing there are
> > 35 uninstallable packages on alpha. However, testing isn't in a perfect
> > state, so there are usually some uninstallable packages to begin with.
> > On that day, it seems that testing started out with 5 uninstallable
> > packages on alpha, hence the difference.
>
> Could you (or someone) add this to the testing faq, it had me (and
> probably others) wondering about it for days.
It's there already!
The update_output.txt file is completely unreadable!
That is not a question. ;-)
Let's take an example:
skipped: cln (0) (150+4)
got: 167+0: a-40:a-33:h-49:i-45
* i386: ginac-cint, libginac-dev
This means that if cln goes into "testing", ginac-cint and
libginac-dev become uninstallable in "testing" on i386. Note that the
architectures are checked in alphabetical order and only the problems
on the first architecture with problems are shown -- that's why the
alpha architecture is shown so often.
The "got" line includes the number of problems in "testing" on the
different architectures (until the first architecture where a problem
is found -- see above). The "i-45" means that if cln would go into
"testing", there would be 45 uninstallable packages on i386. Some of
the entries above and below cln show there were 43 uninstallable
packages in "testing" on i386 at the time.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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