[Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op maandag 21 februari 2011 12:10:36 schreef 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.

to be honest, i would be in favor of doing such a check, with an exception 
usable via mgarepo ( --bootstrapping or something).