Bug#145257: #145257 Re: [britney] migrations can break build-depends
On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 09:14:52PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
>...
> I also realized that test dependencies are in a similar boat, currently we
> don't track test dependencies in either direction. I'd like to have britney2
> track those in a similar way as Build-Depends. A detail that needs to be
> considered though is that britney2 might lack the complete information to do
> that correctly: currently it only sees what dpkg puts in the
> Testsuite-Trigger field and versions are stripped for that purpose and
> different test stanza's are aggregated so test dependencies don't need to be
> co-installable.
This implies that test dependencies might create key packages, and UDD
also needs updating for that.
> Paul
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Adrian
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