Control: tags -1 - patch On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 03:37:09 +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > Any chance of fixing this bug? The attached patch is 3 years old!
Well that patch has not been in a mergeable state since then, so consequently it did not get applied. The root issue here is that to perform the task the bug reporter is requesting from dpkg-checkbuilddeps, the program would need access to whatever frontend database is being used, something dpkg-dev cannot know or assume. Blindly outputting version-less package entries that might or might not be able to satisfy the dependencies anyway, seems very suboptimal, and currently one is best served by one of the frontend aware alternatives. A way to fix this would require coordination with frontend developers, either for a centralized database of remote repositories or for frontend specific modules or a unified command-line format, etc, in any case a discussion I've queued and pending for after wheezy is out. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
