On Luan, 2005-06-27 at 01:42 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> aj: hmm, debootstrap sid fails now because whiptail depends on
> libslang2. Wasn't dependency resolution supposed to avoid this kind of
> problem?
> joeyh: only if you use it?
> sid script uses it, doesn't it?
> no
> --resolve-deps
> for sid, the non dep-resolving fix is to get the overrides changed so
> libslang2 is the same priority as whatever it depends on
> hmm, I see. So should d-i start using --resolve-deps to get the added
> robustness?
> (libslang2 is already standard, but whiptail is prio important)
> d-i betas, yeah; pretty much until the point of release candidates
> until base is frozen, but not after, because of .. overhead?
> the dependency resolver isn't particularly precise or particularly fast
Yes. My upload of libslang2 2.0.4, which was supposed to go into the
archive at the same time as libnewt, didn't; it had the changeover to
Priority: required.
> So we need an override to either make whiptail be standard priority, or
> libslang2 important priority.
>
Uploading now
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