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

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:25:36AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 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?

Not unless you mark dependent packages incompatible so it stops
trying to resolve depends for that version.