Taskotron depcheck broken/incomplete (was: Re: Removing packages that have broken dependencies in F21 tree)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Nov 17 01:01:00 UTC 2014


I wrote:
> The Taskatron depcheck appears to be broken or incomplete: It might be
> effective at checking whether the new package has any broken dependencies,
> but it definitely does not appear to check whether the update breaks OTHER
> packages' dependencies (at least I've seen 2 instances where it didn't
> catch that, and this is the third). The old AutoQA got that right.

Another fun Taskotron depcheck bug, this time a false positive:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-14865
https://taskotron.fedoraproject.org/taskmaster//builders/x86_64/builds/13276/steps/runtask/logs/stdio

        Kevin Kofler



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