Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:15:54AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > >> There is a solution to this actually. Create a Packages, Release and > >> Release.gpg file for the pseudo package and add them as file:// url to > >> sources.list.d/. Then just apt-get install pseudo-pa

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 05:17:30PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > Roger Leigh writes: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>> Roger Leigh writes: > >> > >> The existing approach to dete

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Roger Leigh writes: >> There is a solution to this actually. Create a Packages, Release and >> Release.gpg file for the pseudo package and add them as file:// url to >> sources.list.d/. Then just apt-get install pseudo-package. > > I'll give that a go, thanks. You might be interested in the patc

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > I was considering this earlier, and had this idea: > > testing migration currently conflates two separate criteria when > considering suitability for migration: > > • the package is built on all architectures > • the package meets certain quality criteria such as buggine

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andres Mejia writes: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: >> Roger Leigh writes: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh writes: > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt.

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Roger Leigh writes: >>> >>> > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. >>> > This creates a dummy "depend

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Roger Leigh writes: > > Just to mention in passing, I also wrote an additional "apt" > > resolver last night, based on the

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Roger Leigh writes: >> >> > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. >> > This creates a dummy "dependency package" which is installed and >> > contains Depends and Confli

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Roger Leigh writes ("Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies"): > The existing approach to determinism is not to support alternatives > at all, which is clearly not ideal. While I don't think we should > be encouraging the use of alternative

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. > > This creates a dummy "dependency package" which is installed and > > contains Depends and Conflicts for all the appropriate B