Re: dep-trace v. tsort (dpkg, source, bsd, reason)

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Subject: Re: dep-trace v. tsort (dpkg, source, bsd, reason)
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:12:43 -0600
Message-id: <20120308071243.GB2181@burratino>
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References: <4E18ABB1.4010304@cox.net> <20110709194639.GA4914@elie> <4E18EE60.7010402@cox.net> <20110710151354.GA25475@r500-debian> <4F5696BC.6050409@cox.net> <20120307074658.GH10999@rivendell.home.ouaza.com> <4F57A006.4090106@cox.net> <87r4x364q9.fsf@frosties.localnet>

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> If it causes headaches then the packages are bugy because they did not
> set the right dependencies.

To avoid too much noise: John has been performing upgrades that skip
many major Debian releases and expecting them to work for some reason.
The tsort hack is not enough to make that work (and has nothing to do
with dpkg), but hopefully this gives some context for why he is doing
it.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Reply to:

References:
- dep-trace v. tsort (dpkg, source, bsd, reason)
  - From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>
- Re: dep-trace v. tsort (dpkg, source, bsd, reason)
  - From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Re: dep-trace v. tsort (dpkg, source, bsd, reason)
  - From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>
- Re: dep-trace v. tsort (dpkg, source, bsd, reason)
  - From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>

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