On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Holger Levsen
<holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
Hi Dave,
...
[...]
> This output says that there are currently 2899 packages
> in state-dependency-failed-testing traceable to a state-failed-testing
> package (that doesn't exactly match Piupart's count of 2920). 274 packages
> are responsible for that blocking. More than half of them (1588) are
> blocked by a single package, libreadline6. 1005 of those packages would be
> cleared for testing by removing only libreadline6 from the list of
> blockers. Possibly, at least some of those exposed packages may have
> blocking numbers in the 1000 range (e.g. 'python' is in that list).
thats a nicer distinction than what my script provides. I guess I will use
yours, or take some ideas at least ;)
I'm currently offline, so cannot look myself: is it written in shell or
python? Or something completly different? ;)
In any case, such a list of blockers should be included in piuparts-reports
ASAP.
cheers,
Holger