The new Installability Tester (IT) module replaces the remaining
C-parts. Unlike C-implementation, it does not give up and emit an
"AIEEE" half-way through.
In order to determine installability, it uses two sets "musts" and
"never". As the names suggest, the sets represents the packages that
must be (co-)installable with the package being tested and those that
can never be co-installable. For a package to be installable, "musts"
and "never" have remain disjoint.
These sets are also used to reduce the number of alternatives that are
available to satisfy a given dependency. When these sets are unable
to remove the choice completely, the new IT defers the choice to later.
This occasionally reduces backtracking as a later package may conflict
or unconditionally depend on one of the remaining alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
FAILED/SUCCESS lines would be separated by a whitespace from the list
of architectures, but not itself followed by whitespace. This is slightly
confusing, as one could interpret it as being a heading for the following
block of tested packages, rather that the final result of the previous
block.
We stopped populating the element with real data some time ago, it's
time to drop it entirely.
Signed-off-by: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
Multiarch adds a Depends: foo:any syntax, permitted only if the
target of the dependency is "Multi-Arch: allowed". This has
been supported by dpkg and apt for some time and is now safe to
use in unstable.
[Adam D. Barratt: adjusted to use consts.py]
Signed-off-by: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
"easy foo/1 bar/2" and "easy bar/2 foo/1" are simply different ways of
writing the same hint, so the corresponding Hint objects should compare
as equal.
Signed-off-by: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
So far we only check that hints which should have version information
do (and those which should not do not).
Signed-off-by: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
