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Bug#902992: live-build broken due subversion recommends



Control: severity -1 minor

On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 08:59 -0400, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> pufff you dont understand! i called with "--apt-recommends false"
> Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

Then the problem is not with "recommends", given they are not
installed.

What is _exactly_ the problem, and how do you reproduce it? Are you
sure you didn't set conflicting dependencies?

> 2018-07-05 8:00 GMT-04:00 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>:
> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:04:54 -0400 PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard@
> > gmai
> > l.com> wrote:
> > > Package: live-build
> > > Version: 1:20171207
> > > Severity: grave
> > > 
> > > we need a mechanish to avoid bad or abuse of recommends in apt,
> > > this
> > > problem avoit the automatization of the process
> > > 
> > > if we list the package subversion-tools, that recomends exim4
> > > over
> > 
> > any
> > > other, take preference to a specific package
> > > 
> > > root@pc-desk-w32:/vnx/osposos/debianlive8# aptitude why exim4
> > > i   subversion-tools Recomienda exim4 | mail-transport-agent
> > > 
> > > so then process end with this:
> > > 
> > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > >  courier-mta : Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
> > >  exim4-config : Conflicts: courier-mta but 0.76.3-5 is to be
> > 
> > installed
> > >  exim4-daemon-light : Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
> > > 
> > > and lb build fails, with a only solution to make interactive
> > > shell
> > 
> > and
> > > avoiting automatization of the process
> > > 
> > > we need the mechanish due we cannot track all packages that abuse
> > > or
> > > are bad mantained due policy violations!
> > > 
> > > Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
> > > http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com
> > 
> > There's already an option, call lb config with "--apt-recommends
> > false"
> > and recommends will not be installed.
> > 
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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