[Cuis-dev] Something strange going on with package dependency version numbers

[Phil B]

One thing I'm realizing is that it would be very helpful if the 'Could not
find package supplying:' error logged to transcript both the package that
failed to load and this error.  To do this, it looks like we'd want to
create an ivar and provide the package to the FeatureRequirement instance
creation methods... any issues in doing that?

When you have long and branching package dependencies it's not always
immediately obvious from this exception which package failed to load.  And
when you have a bunch of back-to-back failures it gets even more tedious to
track down.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 8:30 PM Phil B <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:

> I *think* 3900 is the culprit.  I remember getting one version error
> upgrading from 3901 to 3904 and thinking 'strange, I must have forgotten to
> save some trivial package change'.  After making more substantial changes
> now I'm getting over a dozen version errors going from 3904 to 3911.
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 8:15 PM Phil B <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just a heads up as I haven't tracked this down yet: I believe there is a
>> problem with the recent package dependency fixes and it's really a pain.  I
>> just attempted to rebuild my image from the latest base image and had a
>> number of dependency errors due to wrong dependency version numbers.  What
>> appears to be happening is that, at least sometimes, when I change and save
>> a package with dependencies it is incrementing both the package version
>> number and the version number of at least some of the dependencies even
>> though they haven't changed.  I'm fairly certain of this after checking a
>> couple of the dependency version numbers and they can't be right because
>> file timestamps of the target packages haven't changed in over a month.
>>
>> In case the above isn't clear: given package A which has a dependency on
>> package B.  Make some changes to A and save.  When you attempt to reload,
>> package A may now indicated a dependency which requires a version (or
>> multiple versions) higher than what package B provides.
>>
>
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