Hello, TL;DR Is there any tool to build dependency tree for all packages needed to be stabilized (or keyworded) in order stabilize (keyword) foo/bar?
Sometimes in order to stabilize a single version bump a whole lot of packages needs to be stabilized as dependencies. A good example is [1]. What I really need here is to stabilize dev-haskell/pandoc-siteproc (I don't even care about exact version, since any version looks ok for app-doc/root-docs), but this triggers a whole lot of haskell packages to be stabilized. There are several issues here: 1. There are many solutions for this issue, since version requirements usually allow some range of versions. Looks like this is a classical graph path finding task. It would be great to have a tool for best effort solution: e.g. for a tree with minimal number of dependencies of with most recent packages possible (for those which are in the tree for at least 30 days). 2. It is very tedious to build such dependency tree manually (this is how it was done in [1]). To make it worse such work is error-prone, because it is near to impossible to check that each stabilization in the dependency tree will not trigger any blocker in the whole portage tree. Actually at least one such error was made [2]. The best that can be done by hand is to verify that the stabilization dependency tree is self-consistent, but even this check requires a lot of time and effort. All these problems should be solvable with an appropriate tool, but I can't find such tool. Apparently it should inherit some of emerge and repoman functionality for deptree building and checking respectively. Any ideas? I suppose arch teams should have something similar for their goals. P.S. Note for the record: I filed a lot of stabilization request for dev-haskell/* packaged I do not maintain, because haskell team had not responded in a reasonable amount of time for my stable request [3]. I'm not blaming anyone here, just explaining why such action was taken. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=529538&hide_resolved=0 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552388 [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546260 Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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