Bug#693693: ben: Partial suite support

[Iain Lane <iain@orangesquash.org.uk>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:02:04PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Le 19/11/2012 13:23, Iain Lane a écrit :
> > [...] The deduplication is required not for ben but
> > for edos-debcheck (it's interested in finding solutions in the whole
> > repository but for the transition case we only want to know about
> > solutions involving the newest packages). [...]
> 
> ben should deduplicate packages before piping them into edos-debcheck.
> Can you provide a test case where it does not?

I'm using a slightly older version, 0.6.1. So if deduplication is a part
of newer versions then that's great (I'll try to find some time to check
it out soon). I don't believe partial suite support is, but that becomes
a simpler matter if you already have the deduping code. :-)

Cheers,

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