[Piuparts-devel] Bug#778526: Bug#778526: piuparts: packages with Pre-Dependencies fail to properly install/test

[Michael Prokop]

* Andreas Beckmann [Mon Feb 16, 2015 at 11:39:31AM +0100]:

> I don't have the time to look into it right now, but does it work with
> --warn-on-others ? This should create a dummy package to install the
> dependencies first ... (it won't work properly on circular dependencies
> though.

Sorry for getting back so late, thanks for your suggestion.

Yes, --warn-on-others indeed works around this problem with its
piuparts-depends-dummy package. But as the manpage says:

| --warn-on-others
|     Print a warning rather than failing if files are left behind, modified, or removed by a package that was not given on the command-line.
|     This way, you can basically isolate the purge test to your own packages. If a package that is brought in as a dependency doesn’t purge cleanly, the test will not fail because of it (but a
|     warning message will be printed).
| [...]

To me this seems unrelated to the piuparts-depends-dummy package
from the user's PoV, IMHO.

So it would be nice if we could come up with something like a
--force-dummy-package option to get the piuparts-depends-dummy but
without enforcing the "Print a warning rather than failing if files
are left behind [...]" behaviour.

regards,
-mika-
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