Re: [[email protected]: testingcds 3sidamd64 (amd64 dvd) has failed; log included]

Hey Raphael!

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 07:55:21PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On mar., 09 août 2022, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> Ah, sure, that seems quite likely. I did not have the issue in my
>> tests, but I tested with a partial mirror as created by simple-cdd so I
>> quite likely did not hit the problematic recursive dependency.
>> 
>> Can you point me to the debian-cd configuration that I shall use to reproduce
>> the issue?
>
>So the issue was not trivial to reproduce. FWIW, it's only reproducible in
>bullseye, for some reason buster was coping fine with it.

Hmmm, OK.

>But I got it reproduced and the problem was due to packages which have
>strong "Recommends" like libapreq2-dev which has "Recommends:
>libapreq2-doc (= 2.13-7+b3)" which is not satisfiable. It would never stop
>its recursion because the version found was not good for it.

Argh.

>So in the end I have a new patch in the hertzog/bug601203 branch. I'm
>doing some further tests but it seems to solve the issue:
>https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/commit/ca9ac8deac5c1436f4b311a22a34a56f236dfe05
>
>But as I investigated I found more things to fix, like quite
>some dead code:
>https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/commit/e77ade6033445571092e8663ad94a24c7e882b03
>
>I'm going to push this soon but I would love if someone else could
>do a test run and ensure it doesn't break anything else.
>
>I have created a merge request to make it easier to review the code if
>anyone wants to do it:
>https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/merge_requests/26

I can have a look, but not *right* now I'm afraid - swamped with other
stuff. Hopefully by the end of the week...