Paul Gevers: > Hi Gianfranco, > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:45:28 +0200 Gianfranco Costamagna > <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote: >> As said, britney fails to add the appropriate trigger for virtualbox >> when a major release is out, and for this reason the ext-pack fails to >> install reliably on ci.d.o without additional manual triggers. >> >> "virtualbox (>= 5.2.20-dfsg-0~) | virtualbox-5.2, virtualbox (<< >> 5.2.20-dfsg-z) | virtualbox-5.2" >> >> should be a valid relationship. > > I am staring at the britney2 code at > https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/britney2/blob/master/britney2/installability/builder.py#L77 > and it seems there is code available to do this correctly, except it > only does that for cases where there is no alternative (len(block) == > 1). I'll try to generate a test case in the test suite for this. > > [...] > > Paul >
Fair warning; I am not sure there *is* a correct solution for "len(block) > 1" in the general case (and much less an efficient one at that). It is likely going to be very difficult and expensive with almost no return for the effort. Thanks, ~Niels
