Quoting Andreas Henriksson (2020-04-29 12:11:32) > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:58:53AM +0200, Jeff wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > > > I don't understand why gscan2pdf is in the list, as the versions in > > stable, testing and unstable are Perl packages which use libgtk3-perl. > > > > Can you explain? > > reverse-depends -r testing -b src:gtk+2.0 2>&1 | grep gscan2pdf > * gscan2pdf (for libgail-common) > * gscan2pdf (for libgail-common)
that tool relies on a remote server to operate (could this be made explicit in the man page of the tool?), specifically it queries: http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/rdepends/v1/bullseye/source/src:gtk+2.0 I wasn't able to figure out what code is generating this but usually the right tool to analyze transitive dependency relationships is dose3 or tools using it like build-rdeps from devscripts. In this case you would run for each binary package produced by src:gtk+2.0: $ build-rdeps libgail-common [...] gscan2pdf The disadvantage of build-rdeps is, that you have to run it for every binary package produced by src:gtk+2.0 one-by-one as it does not yet automatically turn a src:foo argument into the binary packages produced by foo. Another disadvantage is, that it's often non-intuitive how non-direct dependencies are pulled in. In this case it's a direct dependency so that's easy but in the general case you can obtain the full dependency path by running dose-ceve manually like this: packages=$(apt-get indextargets 'Created-By: Packages' 'Architecture: amd64' 'Component: main' 'Suite: unstable' --format '$(FILENAME)') sources=$(apt-get indextargets 'Created-By: Sources' 'Component: main' 'Suite: unstable' --format '$(FILENAME)') $ dose-ceve -T grml --deb-builds-from --deb-native-arch=amd64 debsrc://"$sources" deb://"$packages" > /tmp/graph.xml $ botch-graph-shortest-path /tmp/graph.xml /tmp/out.xml --source realpackage:src:gscan2pdf --target realpackage:src:gtk+2.0 The file /tmp/out.xml will then contain one of the paths from src:gscan2pdf to src:gtk+2.0, which in this case (as we already knew) goes via libgail-common. Thanks! cheers, josch
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