Op maandag 21 februari 2011 12:45:58 schreef Dexter Morgan: > 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 ? :)
because it's a safeguard, so people don't have to spend more time later on fixing it. and reducing chance of such failures happening when we really release...
