Hi folks,
I just wanted to move my gaim/gaim-ssl package in the 10.4* trees to
stable. But then I stopped, and wondered: Can I? Problem is, in the
recent past I did some moves to stable which turned out to be bad
because I missed the fact that some of my deps weren't in stable yet.
Now, of course I can go through the PDB / my fink trees manually to
find out for each dep whether it is already in stable or not. But
this is quite tedious and error prone.
And of course I can temporarily switch to the stable tree -- but
besides the fact that I'll have lots of unstable-package installed, I
can only use that to test the tree I am currently using, but not the
other tree(s).
Do we have a tool that helps a package author to (semi)automatically
do this? If yes, could somebody point me at it?
If not -- how about creating one? I think it would be very helpful
for maintainers to have this. Or for meta-maintainers who are told by
a maintainer that they should move something to stable :-).
One way to implement this would be with a web form: You past an .info
file (or just the depends line(s), select the target tree ("10.4-
stable"), and it'll tell you whether all deps are fulfilled, or if
not, which are broken. This could be based around the PDB tree, since
that code already has to collect all the required data (which package
is available in which version in which tree).
What do you think?
Cheers,
Max
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