Consistency checks of the package repository

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:00:32PM +0100, Ed Schofield wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering if there's any systematic checking done of the consistency
> of the Ubuntu package repositories -- whether packages' Depends and
> Build-Depends are actually satisfiable. It seems not, since I've
> encountered two instances in Edgy of uninstallable or unbuildable
> packages (#62699 and #72344).
> 
> It seems that some automated tools could help with this. Are there some
> from Debian we could use? If nothing suitable exists, I'd be happy to
> volunteer to hack up some scripts. Would this be useful?

http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/testing/

Bugs found this way are fixed as a prerequisite for a release.  Note that
this covers only main and restricted, while the bugs you found are
presumably in universe or multiverse.  There are not enough Ubuntu
developers to cover every package in universe and multiverse, and so your
assistance in fixing such bugs would be appreciated.

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