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

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:16:31PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:07:50PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > I'm now running your version, but with the deb822.py merged into
> > it again.
> [...]
> > I've just added hurd-i386 to buildd.debian.org, and they have
> > the following problem:
> >     debhelper (= 7.4.2) depends on perl {perl (= 5.10.0-19)}
> >     perl (= 5.10.0-19) depends on hurd {hurd (= 20090404-1)}
> >     hurd (= 20090404-1) depends on sysv-rc {sysv-rc (= 2.87dsf-6)}
> >     sysv-rc (= 2.87dsf-6) depends on insserv (>> 1.12.0-10) {NOT AVAILABLE}
> > 
> > Since perl is one of the packages that's build-essential,
> > they shouldn't get that error.
> 
> So looking at what is happening, it seems you remove
> the dependencies for build-essential packages from
> the source packages.  But those don't build-depend
> on it in the first place.  You need to change
> the Depends on the Packages themself, so
> that the files going to edos-debcheck
> does not have Depends: perl for debhelper.
> 
> I've tried adding a package that provides all the build-essential
> packages in 1 package, but that seems to cause problems too.
> 
> This has atleast 2 problems:
> - Versioned depedencies don't work.  We have things like
>   - libtext-format-perl (= 0.52-21) depends on perl (>= 5.6.0-16)
>   - autoconf (= 2.64-4) depends on perl (>> 5.005)
>   (I've only seen it with perl so far)
> - You need to add provides for all the provides the packages
>   you try to replace have.  And perl has alot of them.
> 
> It might also need to be arch specific, I think hurd has conflicts
> with packages that are essential on other arches.
> 
> This atleast seems to be giving reasonable results, it might
> not be perfect, but would atleast not get us completly stuck.

So does someone have a better suggestion on how to get this fixed?
I would like to see the options about dropping Depends.


Kurt