There have been a few reports from me recently about bugs in the dependency handling systems. This is not that surprising given that it's the first time I have looked at this code seriously since at least 1996, and I don't think many other people have either.
I'm spotting these things as I read the code to understand it prior to actually implementing Breaks. And, because I'm going to end up refactoring bits of this code somewhat so that the new functionality doesn't duplicate too much code, it seems very likely that many of these bugs will be fixed in my Breaks patch, in a way that's not really possible to extract separately. With my Ubuntu hat on I don't have an opinion about when those changes should be deployed in Debian; I'm expecting to deploy them in Ubuntu in edgy (the current WIP release). But I did want to draw your attention to them so that if you think I'm mistaken about the desired behaviour, or think that fixing these bugs would be disruptive, you can get a chance to stop me entangling undesirable changes with the desirable new Breaks feature. There have been a handful of these bug reports today (eg, #377855, #377860, #378003) and will probably be a few more over the course of the week. Note also that I don't promise to fix all of the bugs I'm reporting :-). Regards, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
