Bug#707219: release.debian.org: check co-installability of standard
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:38:05 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 08 May 2013, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > britney doesn't currently check that required+important+standard
> > packages are all co-installable. It might be a good idea to add a
> > faux-package to check that?
>
> This check would probably have avoided #810785 where ifupdown 0.8.6
> entered testing with a Breaks against the version of systemd which
> is in testing.
>
> Thus it would be nice to implement this, even with a hardcoded list
> for a start, it's better than nothing.
>
> Having debootstrap broken is a big issue for anyone working with testing.
>
Not for "anyone", no. Please don't pretend this is a bigger problem than
it really is. Annoying? Sure. But not the end of the world, there are
easy workaround for anyone who can't deal with a few days' breakage.
Cheers,
Julien
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