Re: False negative in ben?

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>]

On 06/04/12 16:16, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Le 06/04/2012 13:00, Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> > I regularly check
> > http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/haskell.html, it is a
> > great tool. But I am confused why it says haskell-sfml-audio,
> > -openal and -alut is bad on armel armhf mips mipsel ppc s390
> > s390x. According to the parameters, this means that some of the
> > packages of the source are uninstallable, but edos-debcheck or
> > apt-get install in a chroot work flawlessly.
>
> Ben considers only the latest version of arch:all packages, whereas
> dak waits for the source package to be built on $arch before making
> the new versions of its arch:all packages available on $arch.

and this is also true for all binary packages (arch:any too) and source
packages… in ben.

> I'm not sure exactly what the desired behaviour is in this case...

Britney does the same. So I'm not sure we should modify this behavior.
It seems a sane filter when considering the migration problem.

My 2cents,

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Mehdi