[arch-general] Why there is duplicate dependencies when searching package on the home page

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 08:07:50 EDT 2008


On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 07 September 2008 11:09:24 schrieb Nagy Gabor:
>> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xawtv/
>> libgl is listed twice (extra, testing)
>> I guess, this problem appears iff the dependency exists in more than
>> one repos.
>
> You should file a bug report at our bug tracker. Packages should only depend
> on other from testing if they are in the same repo themself.
>

As you said, packages in core/extra should not depend on testing.
But also packages in testing which have dependencies in testing don't
need to have the core/extra version of these dependencies listed.



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