[Piuparts-devel] Bug#687995: piuparts: better dependency resolving needed for experimental or backports

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.45
Severity: normal

For the partial distributions (experimental, backports) dependency
solution is more complicated because one probably needs to mix the
packages from the base distribution (sid, squeeze) with the addon
distribution (experimental, squeeze-backports), sometimes it's
neccessary to get packages from the base instead of the addon ... and
apt-get does a bad job in that respect. IIRC pbuilder and sbuild have a
better way to solve dependencies in this case.

These partial distros are meant for cherry-picking, not newer-is-better
as apt does it.

E.g. there is a new perl in experimental, only very few package were
built against this, the majority of packages in experimental is built
against the perl in sid and cannot be installed with the perl in
experimental. Just using perl/sid would be fine ...


Andreas