Bug#841667: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Dependency calculation gets confused by various versions in a suite

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:44:22 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> On Friday, 21 October 2016 23:03:48 CEST you wrote:
> > Looks like it gets and uses the first or second hit which is 5.22.2-5
> > for an old source package still lingering around.
> Good catch. I've also been puzzled sometimes by cme results but I've never 
> found the origin of the issue.

In this case I was really tempted to take a look since I know that
5.22 is not our current perl version :)
 
> > or for binary instead of source?
> I like that better. It certainly is enough to get perl version in unstable.

Ack.
 
> On the other hand, what should be done with a case like:
> 
> $ wget -q -O - 'https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?package=libuv1&b=deb'
> libuv1     | 1.9.0-1~bpo8+1 | jessie-backports | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
> libuv1     | 1.9.0-1        | unstable         | hurd-i386
> libuv1     | 1.9.1-1        | testing          | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
> libuv1     | 1.9.1-3        | buildd-unstable  | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
> libuv1     | 1.9.1-3        | unstable         | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
> 
> Which version should be considered as the unstable one ? Could we have a similar problem when trying to cleanup
> old versions (the one older than old-stable) ?

Too bad we still have non-release architectures in (r)madison and
other outputs.
In this case I'd like to see 1.9.1-3.
 
> A way around that is to consider amd64 as the "reference" arch to get package version. This would
> simplify the problem and be correct most of the time.

Sounds reasonable to me.
Or maybe just taking the highest version in unstable would work as
well.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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