[Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 23:52, Balcaen John <balcaen.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le dimanche 20 février 2011 20:23:30, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now and then, i'm refreshing http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and sometimes i
>> notice the missing dependancies increasing...
> [...]
>
> Maybe we should in fact check dependencies directly from the spec & fix
> requires before uploading the « main » package ?

The reason to not reject packages with missing dependencies is for
bootstrapping
Sometime one of the subpackages will not be installable immediately,
but the other subpackage needed to build the package which will
satisfy this dependency will be.