Bug#693693: ben: Partial suite support

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Le 2012-11-20 15:31, Iain Lane a écrit :
> 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. :-)

IIRC, the dedupe code was there since ever (at least, before the first
upload to Debian).

Cheers,

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Mehdi