Re: Debian Hurd package dependencies [Was: GSoC application deadline passed]

[Samuel Thibault]

Michal Suchanek, le Wed 19 Mar 2008 10:53:13 +0100, a écrit :
> On 18/03/2008, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Michal Suchanek, le Tue 18 Mar 2008 17:01:21 +0100, a écrit :
> > > >  > Plus keep all versions of packages on some "hurd-core" list until
> >  > >  > somebody manually marks a newer version as verified working.
> >  > >
> >  > > It's not necessarily so simple, you need to check all the rdeps etc.
> >  >
> >  > But checking rdeps can be automated, and it's supposedly already
> >  > working for the Debian archive.
> >
> > It usually has lot of problems and needs manual intervention.
> 
> What kind of problems?

Libraries transitions & such.

> If packages are missing it should be resolved by archiving a minimal
> set of packages that are required for a decent base system.

That's what "testing" does yes.

> If there are other problems these are bugs that should be fixed.

And that are fixed by hand in a distributed way by debian developpers.
Doing it ourselves would be a big job.

Samuel