Re: Do people not care about broken dependencies?

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On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 8:31 AM Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:35:52 +0200
> Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:31 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > There used to be sent nagging email about broken dependencies, but
> > > it is not sent anymore. I last received such email on 11th of March
> > > 2018, so probably we don't really care ...
> >
> > The problem with that check is that it just checks if all dependencies
> > are provided by other packages, but it doesn't check if they can be
> > installed at the same time. So if I would have package with Requires:
> > foo + Conflicts: foo, that check won't tell anything.
> >
> > Same applies to rich dependencies "with", it just checks if one
> > condition is provided by anything so this check is not useful for
> > packages with rich dependencies at all…
>
> IIRC the original problem was that repoclosure used yum underneath which
> didn't understand rich/weak deps at all. Do we still wait on a tool
> using dnf/libsolv to provide equivalent functionality as repoclosure?
>

I already ported spam-o-matic to DNF, however the multi-arch stuff
somehow got broken in DNF shortly after I wrote the code, so that's
not working as intended. Someone needs to fix it. I already tried to
figure it out, but I have no clue why it's broken.



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