Re: 1241 not binNMU-safe packages found in sid

[Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:15:31PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> after the latest pgsql transition, pgadmin3 wasn't upgradable, because
> of bad dependencies on pgadmin3-common - usual binNMU problem.
> After that I've decided to look on the rest of sid - there may be other
> bad dependencies I thought.
> 
> debmirror --host=ftp.uni-koeln.de --dist=sid --arch=none
> --ignore-release-gpg --source --exclude=. --include=.\.diff\.gz
> --section=main --progress --verbose sid-diff
> 
> gave me all the diff.gz from sid, so I could grep for "(=
> ${Source-Version})", and the result was shocking:
> Out of 10126 diff.gzs I got from sid, 1241 have "bad" dependencies -
> time for mass-bugfilling?
> 
> You can find a list of the packages here:
> http://files.die-welt.net/bad-depends-in-sid

There are surely some false positives. e.g. ant. ant builds arch-indep
packages only and so the Depends with (= ${Source-Version}) is correct.

Happy searching for more false positives :-)


Cheers,
Michael
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