Bug#852230: unknown-horizons: have another program where dependencies are sorted out for unknown-horizons.

[Markus Koschany]

> On 22.01.2017 19:30, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Package: unknown-horizons
>> Version: 2017.1+ds-2
>> Severity: wishlist
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> Right now what happens is if there are any change/s to the depends or
>> recommends then the unknown-horizons binary gets downloaded each time.
>> This is waste of time and bandwidth from the user as well as Debian's
>> server/mirror perspective.
>> 
>> It would be much better and much more highly efficient (probably) if
>> we have a small program which deals with all or any changes with
>> depends or recommends.
>> 
>> Unknown-horizons binary should only be disturbed when the change
>> directly affects unknown-horizons, otherwise not.

This is the way how it works in Debian and not a bug in unknown-horizons
by the way. If you make a change to the source package regarding
build-dependencies or dependencies then it must be rebuilt because
information about dependencies are stored in your deb file.

Your "small program" still needs to know what has changed and retrieve
the information from somewhere, a database maybe. You need to implement
this change so that all packages in the archive will continue to work.
Not a small feat. You should discuss this with the maintainer(s) of dpkg
or on a public mailing list. Unknown-Horizons is the wrong package though.

Markus Koschany


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