[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#337015: Does not correctly fetch experimental depends

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> I got a stupid idea that may help solve this problem in a much simpler
> way: Create a fake dummy package containing the strict minimum to get apt
> do its job with the package dependencies.

 That's an excellent and very inspiring idea; I was postponing work to
 integrate the aptitude resolver because I thought it would require
 writing C++.  O:-)

 I wrote a prototype pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude yesterday, and I
 was able to build packages with pretty complex build-deps; it confirms
 that the idea really makes sense as aptitude resolver proved to work
 very well in my test cases.

 (While searching for a way to let aptitude ignore repository GPG
 signatures on IRC, mrvn ended up explaining he had implemented the same
 idea to map Sources files into Packages files in order to allow easy
 build-dep installation with APT; too bad I never heard of this before.)


 [ There are a lot of cleanups and tests I have to make before merging
 this in pbuilder, so I wanted to claim the work on this area here
 first.  ]

 I'm interested if you have an idea in how to make aptitude ignore
 unsigned repositories; the current pbuilder / apt-get accepts this, so
 it would be a regression not to accept it.

-- 
Loïc Minier