On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 17:20 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > britney1 and britney2 have different methods of determining whether a > package can be removed from testing, which recently led to britney2 > removing a package when it shouldn't have. A patch which appears to fix > this is attached, the remainder of this mail is discussion of what > happened and why I believe the patch is correct. [...] > My patch augments step a by storing a recursive list of r-depends for > later consideration; in this case this would mean that Q is checked in > step b and discovered to be uninstallable. [...] > Comments / questions / cluesticks welcome.
Self-cluestick: b2 already has a get_full_tree method which iterates reverse-dependency lists, so we should just use that. Updated patch coming to a b2 tree near you soon. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
