Hi Julien, On Sonntag, 28. November 2010, Julien Valroff wrote: > I have made some quick tests with the same sets of packages as before and > it seems it fixes the issue.
Yay! And thanks for confirming!
> However, you had stated in the related piuparts.d.o page that "the
> solution is not to enable removal, but understand why the
> piuparts-depends-dummy package has to be removed to install the ptjer
> packages... "
>
> I thought there were other problems implied with the --no-remove option…
Well, I couldnt see and imagine any, and on the opposite I know that sometimes
removal is needed (ie especially during upgrades from one distro to another)
so I decided there is nothing to understand why removal was disabled, so I
enabled it. There are some coding decissions in piuparts I dont understand,
and sometimes the reasons & settings have changed, so what once made sense,
doesnt make sense anymore.
And, if things go wrong due to remove being enabled, I think I will notice
eventually :-)
Of those 17 packages retested (9 in sid, 8 in squeeze) which used to fail
because of this, there were now 14 successfull test and 3 failures, all due
to broken depends. (It's sid after all, amd64 autobuilders are usually quite
fast, but not always.) In 7 days those 3 will be scheduled for new tests
automatically - so, so far, all is good :)
cheers,
Holger
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