On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:05:12 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Some parameters exists that let user decide whether the "cut-off" should be
> done for stable or old-stable.
I vaguely remember setting this somewhere long ago ...
*after quite some time*
% cat ~/.dpkg-meta.yml
---
dependency-filter: lenny
group-dependency-filter:
'Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>': lenny
Haha.
(Interesting detail: last modified 2017-07-02 ?!)
> The possibility to choose between old-stable and stable has been broken for
> quite a while and nobody complained.
Because of
'dependency-filter',
{
'choice' => [
'etch',
'lenny',
'squeeze',
'wheezy'
],
in lib/Config/Model/models/Dpkg/Meta.pl?
> I guess that nobody uses this feature, so
> I'm going to remove it. (it's one of those "cool" feature that nobody actually
> cares about, oh well... )
It seems at least you and me cared about it years ago :)
But I agree that it didn't turn out to be so helpful as apparently I
completly forget about the file.
> Unless someone has a better idea, I plan to implement a simpler ruler: a
> warning will be issued only for dependencies requiring a version older than
> the oldest one known by madison.
Excellent, that would have been exactly my suggestion.
Cheers,
gregor
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