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Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:

> Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-10-04 18:22:10 +0200 (+0200), Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>> [...]
>>> When I execute 'bindep test’ locally, I get the following error on  
>>> centos7.2
>>> which is expected:
>>>
>>> Bad versions of installed packages:
>>>     sqlite version 3.7.17-8.el7 does not match >=3.8
>>>
>>> I would think that this output is passed to apt-get in the gate. But  
>>> then I
>>> see the following failure in gate:
>>>
>>> http://logs.openstack.org/06/381906/3/check/gate-neutron-pep8-ubuntu-xenial/148dcd8/console.html#_2016-10-04_15_57_36_846699
>> [...]
>>
>> We hashed this out just now in #openstack-infra, but the quick
>> summary is that version specifiers with bindep are sort of
>> experimental. They were added as part of its initial design but the
>> first implementation was dpkg-only and made some assumptions about
>> how distros track available vs installed package versions that
>> couldn't easily be extended to other platforms. As a result, when we
>> started adding rpm (and then later emerge) support, we pretty much
>> just punted on version handling until someone actually turned up who
>> needed it and was willing to do the work to add it in a useful
>> cross-platform manner. For now at least, version specifiers have
>> poor coverage in bindep's unit tests and no coverage in its
>> functional tests and have probably bit-rotted on us.
>>
>> It's on me that I forgot we actually mention version constraints in
>> the bindep documentation, with no indication that they aren't a
>> first-class feature at the moment. Anyway, it sounds like you may
>> have time and interest to help us get this supported properly (at
>> least for rpm-based platforms), so I'm thrilled and looking forward
>> to working with you toward that goal. Thanks again!
>> -- 
>> Jeremy Stanley
>>
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> For reader’s sake, the patch to support versions for brief mode of the  
> tool is: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/381979/

I hate to be PITA but the patch did not get any review attention for two  
months+, even with frequent irc pings of relevant folks. I wanted to reuse  
versioned dependencies for Neutron as a self-documenting contract with  
platforms and distributions; but without this feature completed, I can’t  
really move forward with it, and if nothing changes, we may probably end up  
crafting some custom tracking file for basically the same matter.

I still hope we can get this in, and then reuse bindep.txt for minimal  
runtime dependencies version tracking for interested projects. The patch is  
small, it should not take much time for a seasoned reviewer...

Ihar