Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/py-scipy

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:12:47AM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 04:44:25PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 01:11:17PM +0000, Nia Alarie wrote:
> > > Module Name:      pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:     nia
> > > Date:             Tue Apr  6 13:11:17 UTC 2021
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   pkgsrc/math/py-scipy: Makefile
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > py-scipy: unbreak bulk builds
> > > 
> > > if you mark a package incompatible with python version X, you also
> > > need to mark any dependent packages incompatible with version X
> > 
> > I think the person who updated the package was right in marking
> > it not suitable for 3.6. 
> > 
> > So is it that the failure mode of the bulk build will now be in
> > some sense better?
> > Is this a general python version issue better solved in pbulk?
> 
> If you mark a package incompatible with Python version X without
> also marking dependent packages incompatible, the pbulk resolver
> will be unable to resolve dependencies, and bulk builds will break
> (stop running).

Doesn't pbulk have all of the information at its disposal?