Bug#335925: apt-cache rdepends shows duplicated reverse dependencies/dependants

[Ishan Jayawardena <udeshike@gmail.com>]

Hi David,

Thank you for your reply. I will look into your suggestions and modify
it appropriately.

On 2/9/11, David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ishan,
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 16:46, Ishan Jayawardena <udeshike@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried to come up with a fix.
>
> First of all, the patch really fixes the issue for rdepends, so you are on
> the right track, but…
>
>> Please find the attached patch and give
>> me your feedback.
>
> * the indent-style is wrong. I know that the indent-style is… lets say
>   strange, but thats how it is and changing it would just destroy the
> history
>   in the vcs. The style is easiest described by indent with 3 spaces on each
>   curly bracket - but replace 8 consecutive spaces with a tab. You have just
>   used spaces and/or not the tabstop at 8 so your code is various indent-
>   levels higher than the rest which make it harder to read.
> * The code is reused for the depends command which breaks with your patch.
>   Attached is a testcase you can copy to test/integration in the source tree
>   which will run the tools build in this tree, so you can test your patch
>   without installing anything, you just need to build the tree and run the
>   testcase(s). This will show you the next two things:
> * You are printing your s string to often (you don't need it, just print it
>   as the code did it before and move the duplication check before it
> instead)
> * If the DependencyType is shown you should disable the duplication check as
>   otherwise only one of possible many dependencies is shown.
>
> In general, it seems to be a burden at first, but writing a testcase for the
> issue at hand can save you from a lot of problems later on.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> David Kalnischkies
>


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Regards,
Ishan Jayawardena.