[Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

[Dexter Morgan]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Maarten Vanraes
<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>

why ? why not the time you use by writting those emails for packaging
the missing deps ? :)