[Piuparts-devel] Bug#458929: Bug#458929: piuparts: can't test apt/debfoster and their dependancies

[John Wright]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:16:12PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Package: piuparts
> Version: 0.28
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I run piuparts with --warn-on-others on zlib1g, it will fail in that
> way:

I can see why this is broken for zlib1g (removing zlib1g results in
removing some essential packages), but it works for me with debfoster.

In any case, it would make more sense piuparts did not remove the
package if it already was installed.  The only other way I see for it to
get the dependencies separate from installing the latest version of the
package (required at least for the current implementation of
--warn-on-others) is to generate a metapackage that has the same
dependencies as the packages we want to install.  This way, piuparts
installs the metapackage, runs "apt-get -f install", removes the
metapackage, updates the chroot metadata, and then installs the packages
we actually want to test.

I'm working on this now, but if someone has a better idea, please pipe
in!

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>