[Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

Mon Feb 21 15:17:31 CET 2011

Op maandag 21 februari 2011 12:45:58 schreef Dexter Morgan:
+> 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 ? :)
+
+because it's a safeguard, so people don't have to spend more time later on 
+fixing it. and reducing chance of such failures happening when we really 
+release...
+