Bug#720157: [release.debian.org] hint mupen64plus-* for testing transition
Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> (2013-08-19):
> From a quick look at the dependencies, I'm not sure how easy adding
> that support would be. The -sdl packages don't have any positive
> dependencies on the newer versions of the other packages, which is
> what britney uses to compute "excuse dependencies", and in turn what
> the autohinter uses to deduce relationships for hinting purposes.
>
> I guess she'd need to do something along the lines of "there's a new
> Breaks/Conflicts which affects the testing version of the broken
> package but not the sid version, maybe I should try adding that
> package as well". I don't think that fits in nicely with the current
> code, but I'm happy to be proved wrong...
We could also just consider this kind of cases doesn't happen frequently
enough to bother, and let people report bugs like Sven did. Deal?
Mraw,
KiBi.
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