On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis <[email protected]> wrote: > (removing a few people from the list)
> You're underestimating the value an automated system has, no... i don't believe i am. the automated system itself is not the important bit. the record of what changes/differences required to overcome any problems found now that _is_ valuable. > and overestimating the value of those notes. ... noo, i don't believe i am. _anything_ which saves other people time, in a free software context, is valuable. > What took me days to find out regarding the cyclic > dependencies and what needs to be solved, would be a matter of seconds for > such a tool. ok. yes. true. and - let me check - you're saying that the bits you actually solved are actually quite small [excluding the tracking down of cyclic dependencies etc.] > Mathematically speaking, such a tool if it does not exist already > for debian packages, it should be trivial to write and detect such > dependencies, no matter how many levels deep. Then with the output of this > tool, policy changes might take place and the relevant packages fixed. There > half the problem solved. What took me months, with these changes should take > just a few weeks for a new porter. But this will never happen without this > tool and without the policy changes. i'm _so_ glad you've mentioned this :) l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
