On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:45 +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: > A problem with failing the installation if matlab is missing is that it > prevents migration from Ubuntus proposed repository to the main one. > Migration requires that it installs and does also not make other > packages uninstallable. > E.g. this right now affects dynare, it can't migrate because it depends > on matlab-support which does not install. > > I though that the debian unstable -> testing works the same way, but > apparently not as e.g. dynare was allowed to go into testing.
In the context of testing migration, installability is determined by computing package relationships, not by actually attempting to install the affected packages (which generally wouldn't add much and isn't feasible given the number of packages involved). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
