* Andreas Beckmann [Mon Feb 16, 2015 at 11:39:31AM +0100]: > I don't have the time to look into it right now, but does it work with > --warn-on-others ? This should create a dummy package to install the > dependencies first ... (it won't work properly on circular dependencies > though.
Sorry for getting back so late, thanks for your suggestion. Yes, --warn-on-others indeed works around this problem with its piuparts-depends-dummy package. But as the manpage says: | --warn-on-others | Print a warning rather than failing if files are left behind, modified, or removed by a package that was not given on the command-line. | This way, you can basically isolate the purge test to your own packages. If a package that is brought in as a dependency doesn’t purge cleanly, the test will not fail because of it (but a | warning message will be printed). | [...] To me this seems unrelated to the piuparts-depends-dummy package from the user's PoV, IMHO. So it would be nice if we could come up with something like a --force-dummy-package option to get the piuparts-depends-dummy but without enforcing the "Print a warning rather than failing if files are left behind [...]" behaviour. regards, -mika-
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