On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:20:33PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 05:01:55 +0100 gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > > AFAIK, this bug is the last blocker for using versioned provides in > > the perl world, which would be a big help for us. > > > > Did you have a chance to take a look? Is there anything we could do > > to help? > > Coming up with a (even untested) patch (or better merge request on > https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest) would be a great way of > moving this forward. Even a merge request that says, "# autopkgtest > should now do something like 'apt blalbla' here" is already easier to > discuss than by words in this thread.
Just submitted https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/merge_requests/14 for this. Hope that clears things up. > By the way, do we have any feeling is the aspcud solver for APT does > better (or worse) in this case? I am still wondering if we want that > solver as a fall-back or if we could even use that by default (that > would be more tempting if this bug would be solved by it as well). No hunch here, sorry. -- Niko