Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze and possible mass bug filing

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> You forgot to include packages that Suggest git-core in the list.

The only package with a versioned Suggest of git-core I found was
moap, which I did include.  Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if I missed
something for some other reason.

For what it’s worth, the list of affected packages was generated with
the script below.  Corrections welcome.

Jonathan

-- 8< --
#!/bin/sh
set -e
check() {
	local rel=$1
	shift

	grep-dctrl -F$rel git-core -n -sPackage,$rel "$@" |
	while :
	do
		read pkg || break
		read deps
		read newline
		ver=$(
			printf "%s\n" "$deps" |
			sed -ne 's/^.*git-core (\([^)]*\)).*/\1/p'
		)
		if test "$ver"
		then
			printf "%s --- $rel: git-core (%s)\n" "$pkg" "$ver"
		fi
	done
}

for rel in Depends Recommends Conflicts Breaks Suggests Enhances
do
	check "$rel" /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages
done
for rel in Build-Depends Build-Depends-Indep Build-Conflicts
do
	check "$rel" /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Sources
done