Broken dependencies in universe

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:42:29AM -0700, Ryan Thiessen wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:31:12 -0700, Daniel Robitaille
> <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > my understanding is that universe is done more or less without human
> > intervention.  So something could easily be broken, and nobody would really
> > notice, unless they try to install it.  That's the sad reality of
> > trying to use the non-supported universe in Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Some hints of what's broken or missing could possibly be found in the build
> > logs:  http://people.ubuntu.com/~lamont/buildLogs/
> > But I can't seem to find anything about php4-common in there.
> 
> My question here is more about the rationale of having broken packages
> in Ubuntu's universe, I posted my technical question in another
> thread.

We should add universe to the system that generates
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~cjwatson/testing/, certainly, so that we
at least know about them. Even the Debian testing distribution hasn't
managed to eradicate quite all the broken dependencies, though (although
it's very close indeed), so it may be difficult for the much smaller
team working on Ubuntu to do it for the whole of universe, given that
universe isn't something that we generally get to spend lots of paid
time on.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]