i've never put together a hints file, and i may be reading the reports wrong, but if you look at this briefly and it looks similar, you might get even more good Debian karma by hinting these packages.
of course, these are a bit more complicated than scim because of the -dev packages; i haven't fully traced the dependencies myself here yet.
does this fit within the bounds of your thought of the graph-theoretic approach to identifying these little dependency knots?
sure looks like there's a cycle among thunderbird and enigmail, but I can't tell about the -dev packages either, and I'm not sure I know how to look today. But that cycle is the knot I'm talking about, yes.
I do think building the blocking-based-on directed graph and looking for cycles would identify these kinds of things.
I don't think you have to write a hints file -- you could just write debian-release at lists dot debian dot org to ask them to look at it, if you think that the cycle is the problem. But it's really something to write the Debian maintainers of thunderbird about.
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Date: 2004-12-06 09:38 pm (UTC)so nice to see the speed of response for a trivial fix, isn't it? people are happy to have help! if only the world worked this way in more places.
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Date: 2004-12-08 05:02 am (UTC)it looks like tbird 0.9-6 is hung up because of a similar cyclic dependency related to enigmail:
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=mozilla-thunderbird
i've never put together a hints file, and i may be reading the reports wrong, but if you look at this briefly and it looks similar, you might get even more good Debian karma by hinting these packages.
of course, these are a bit more complicated than scim because of the -dev packages; i haven't fully traced the dependencies myself here yet.
does this fit within the bounds of your thought of the graph-theoretic approach to identifying these little dependency knots?
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Date: 2004-12-08 09:51 pm (UTC)I do think building the blocking-based-on directed graph and looking for cycles would identify these kinds of things.
I don't think you have to write a hints file -- you could just write debian-release at lists dot debian dot org to ask them to look at it, if you think that the cycle is the problem. But it's really something to write the Debian maintainers of thunderbird about.