Consistency checks of the package repository

[William Grant]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

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).

Debian has similar unmet dependencies, and there are a lot of cases
where we can't do anything about them. Bug #72344 is actually an apt
bug, as I've noted there. The dependencies are correct, but apt is
failing to parse them properly.

> 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?
> 
> -- Ed

William.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFFYAaxrbS+qZ0dQCURAj+FAKDpFRBVajpv/xPOvZSA4uK+M5uu8wCfUP8Y
6h/BhJQMIs3dUpKjlXRbjac=
=aOu6
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----