Viewing profile — guillemj

Hmm this seems to conflate various things. As anyone who has had to make code interact with GnuPG will attest, I very much agree its interfaces are not ideal to put it mildly. I'm …

Either here or I guess a mail to the debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org mailing list would do, whatever is most convenient. :)

There is already «apt-cache depends » or even «apt-cache depends --recurse ». Perhaps those are missing something?

I assume you mean maintainer scripts here. If so we are already going in that direction: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeclarativePackaging For interactivity that should …

I agree this is currently a problem, the solutions are currently either too heavy weight, or too limited ( https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup ). What I've been wanting …

This has been part of the dpkg roadmap for some time now ( https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap ). And something I'm slowly but progressively moving towards. But TBH it has b…

Please check https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalification , https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/EssentialOnDiet and https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/ImportantField . …