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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Montag, 17. September 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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.

actually, "apt-get -t experimental $package" does exactly the right thing, 
which we want to test.


cheers,
	Holger