Bug#545381: edos-builddebcheck: Always consider built-essential packages installable

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:08:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:34:09PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > edos is being run as part of wanna-build, so on buildd.debian.org,
> > not on the buildd machine.  wanna-build is the part that tells
> > the buildd's which packages to build, and does not know anything
> > about the state of their chroots.
> 
> This looks like a Catch-22 then.
> 
> The problem stated by Ralf is pretty clear: consider a build-essential
> "Package: p" with "Depends: a | b".
> 
> How can you know which among "a" and "b" is installed if you don't have
> access to the chroots? The only alternative I see is having some more
> assumptions on build-essential packages (e.g. they are always installed
> using the same argument "sbuild" would use) or something such ...

Let's worry about this later.  Let's start with actually getting
us a working version atleast thinks some of the packages are
installable.


Kurt