Hello Kari,
I tried your patch sent to #170825.
I think it deals with 217862 and 270545.
I'm not sure it fixes 20471 (I'm not sure I tried the right sequence).
And it does not deal with the use case described at the beginning of
#170825.
170825 is about a virtual package:
A_1 Provides: A-1
A_2 Provides: A-2
C Depends: A-1
The sequence:
dpkg -i A_1
dpkg -i C
dpkg -i A_2
should fail when installing A_2
(In this case, A_2 has no pkg->installed.depended, so your code is not
even executed)
I'm attaching equivs control files in case you want to build packages for
testing (build them with equivs-build <control_file>).
In your patch, you should also change the internerr message (in case a user
fall there, it may be interresting to have a message different from the
previous one).
Also, I don't understand the "deferred installs do not apply here".
We are going into this code path when --force-depends is used.
Thanks for taking care of this bug anyway.
I will run with this patch, and will inform you if I find any side effect.
Kind Regards,
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Nekral
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