Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-11 Thread Mark Hindley
Niels, Thanks for working on this so swiftly. On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:25:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > I have attached the following patch that passes the provided test and > (AFAICT) does what we want. Please feel free to review it; I will come > back to this in a few days. I have

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed patch Niels Thykier: > [...] > > I looking forward to your test case as it will make this issue a lot > easier to debug. > Hi, Thanks for the test case. :) I have pushed it to britney2-tests and flagged it as a known failure. > What is supposed to happen is that:

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-10 Thread Mark Hindley
Niels, On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:49:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > I looking forward to your test case as it will make this issue a lot > easier to debug. A test case is attached. It fails without the patch I submitted (inadequate though it is, as you pointed out), but succeeds with it. I

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Mark Hindley: > Neils, > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:03:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Hi Mark >> >> Thanks for the investigative work and the patch. >> >> I have not had time to review the patch yet in details and hope to have >> a look this weekend. > > Thanks. > Hi Mark, Once again,

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-08 Thread Mark Hindley
Neils, On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:03:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi Mark > > Thanks for the investigative work and the patch. > > I have not had time to review the patch yet in details and hope to have > a look this weekend. Thanks. > Could I convince you to add a small test case for

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Mark Thanks for the investigative work and the patch. I have not had time to review the patch yet in details and hope to have a look this weekend. Could I convince you to add a small test case for this problem to our britney2-tests repo (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/britney2-tests) that

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-05 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: britney Tags: patch Dear Release Team, Whilst investigating why britney has not migrated src:elogind 241.3-1+debian1 to bullseye, I discovered that the negative dependencies of the dependencies of