Re: debian: blands: mathematics-dev: libmpfi libtestu01: git-format-patch
Hi,
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 09:19:15AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > The essence of this issue is: Package maintainers should either maintain
> > the Blends tasks files when creating new packages (and libnauty2-dev is
> > per definition a new package since there is a new name string) or at
> > least drop me a note.
>
> On the other hand, libnauty2-dev Provides libnauty-dev, which may be also provided by
> libnauty3-dev and so forth: my guess is that it would be more appropriate that the
> latest concrete package that Provides a virtual package.
I agree that this sounds catchy but as you state yourself more than one
package might provide a virtual package. If this is the case what exact
metainformation should be presented on the tasks page? It's not always
that simple to say that with the highest version number. So it has some
sense to only list real packages.
> Otherwise, it appears that libtestu01-dev, also a virtual package, is not yet present
> in the mathematics-dev task page after a couple of updates.
Ther is no such package and I also have not seen it in the list of
prospective packages in VCS. So what exatly do you expect to be
displayed? The log file at
http://blends.debian.org/_logs/debian-science.log
says:
ERROR - blendstasktools.py (1847): Package libtestu01-dev in task mathematics-dev neither in pool nor new and is lacking homepage and description - ignored
I think this log message is correct and you should provide a real
package name.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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