Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Holger Levsen writes ("potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main"):
> piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first 
> alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends 
> on "adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (>= 7.5-1), sudo" and timeout 
> is only available in lenny and etch, thus piuparts cannot test secvpn in 
> squeeze, wheezy and sid. That's a bug in piuparts.

Would it be possible to make piuparts cope by ignoring dependencies
which are not available in the target suite ?

That would make it easier to test against a different suite to the one
intended, too.

Ian.