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Re: dpkg/dselect changes needed

Manoj:
>  (personally, I would normally find find Ian's remark of ``If the
>  project has a highly competent C programmer whom I can trust to do
>  this right'' mildly offensive, but hey, I thought, that's just Ian,
>  and he probably meant it to be a cold statement of fact [maybe I'm
>  getting thin skinned in my old age]).

It was intended as a cold statement of fact.  Modifying someone else's
code is the hardest kind of programming, and when you put that
together with the fact that this code is already very complex, and
that it is at the core of our packaging system, I think that the
requirement that a highly competent person do it follows naturally.

dpkg already has in its lib directory some library code used by dpkg
and dselect to do status file parsing, &c.  What is required is to
turn the several different dependency calculation routines (which are
all subtly different for good reasons to do with their environment and
purpose) and try to make a single generic facility that solves these
problems.

It still won't be _very_ easy to use, but it will be better than the
current clone-and-hack strategy.

Ian.


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