On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: > Op maandag 21 februari 2011 12:10:36 schreef Pascal Terjan: >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 23:52, Balcaen John <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Le dimanche 20 février 2011 20:23:30, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Now and then, i'm refreshing http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and sometimes >> >> i notice the missing dependancies increasing... >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > Maybe we should in fact check dependencies directly from the spec & fix >> > requires before uploading the « main » package ? >> >> The reason to not reject packages with missing dependencies is for >> bootstrapping >> Sometime one of the subpackages will not be installable immediately, >> but the other subpackage needed to build the package which will >> satisfy this dependency will be. > > to be honest, i would be in favor of doing such a check, with an exception > usable via mgarepo ( --bootstrapping or something). >
why ? why not the time you use by writting those emails for packaging the missing deps ? :)
