[DRE-maint] Bug#1123650: Acknowledgement (schleuder installation fails)

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 11:52:34AM +0000, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> On 22/12/2025 11:13, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > 
> > This is part of your problem. Partially-upgraded systems are not really
> > supported by Debian. Even though we *try* to specify versioned
> > dependencies that force the required upgrades, the number of different
> > configurations in a partially-upgraded system is infinite and it's
> > impossible to catch all cases.
> 
> Surely it should still be possible to accurately transcribe upstream
> dependencies into the debian/control file?

It is, but upstream dependency metadata is not perfect either.

> Everything *not* installed by some debian package? That sounds painful. Is
> there a tool for that?

cruft-ng
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