Re: pkg/32202

[joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/32202; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32202
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:08:46 +0100

 On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:05:02PM +0000, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/32202; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Krister Walfridsson <cato%df.lth.se@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/32202
 > Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:04:50 +0100 (CET)
 > 
 >  On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost wrote:
 >  
 >  > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:15:07PM +0000, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
 >  > >  Hmm.  mk/bulk/printdepends is not completely happy:
 >  >
 >  > That's a different problem. Those packages don't have a working
 >  > "show-depends-dirs", since e.g. PKG_FAIL or so is set. The message is a
 >  > bit misleading, but the behaviour correct.
 >  
 >  Well, this behavior is fallout of fixing the PR.
 >  
 >  And I claim it is a bug -- the mk/bulk/printdepends should not
 >  write any errors unless the errors are real problems that
 >  should be fixed.  I have no problem with "show-depends-dirs"
 >  writing errors in this case, but then "printdepends" need to
 >  suppress the errors, or use some other mechanism.
 
 It is a bug, the question is just of which part of the infrastructure.
 For example, it did make the missing default option in chat/unrealircd
 easy to spot and I'm inclined to consider the other packages buggy as
 well for the same reason.
 
 Joerg