[Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

Mon Feb 21 12:45:58 CET 2011

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Maarten Vanraes
+<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op maandag 21 februari 2011 12:10:36 schreef Pascal Terjan:
+>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 23:52, Balcaen John <balcaen.john at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> > Le dimanche 20 février 2011 20:23:30, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>> >> Hi,
+>> >>
+>> >> Now and then, i'm refreshing http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and sometimes
+>> >> i notice the missing dependancies increasing...
+>> >
+>> > [...]
+>> >
+>> > Maybe we should in fact check dependencies directly from the spec & fix
+>> > requires before uploading the « main » package ?
+>>
+>> The reason to not reject packages with missing dependencies is for
+>> bootstrapping
+>> Sometime one of the subpackages will not be installable immediately,
+>> but the other subpackage needed to build the package which will
+>> satisfy this dependency will be.
+>
+> to be honest, i would be in favor of doing such a check, with an exception
+> usable via mgarepo ( --bootstrapping or something).
+>
+
+why ? why not the time you use by writting those emails for packaging
+the missing deps ? :)
+