On 2010/10/14 Peter Simons
are those checks based on the PKGBUILD files? I wonder, because those files contain only a subset of the available information since cabal2arch cannot translate all version specifications in dependencies. Such a check would spot some errors, i.e. it would recognize that PKGBUILDS are flat-out missing, but it can't verify whether a dependency like "foo == 1.*" or "bar >= 3 && < 5" is fulfilled.
To implement those kind of checks, it would be necessary to work with the original Cabal files. Does your tool do that? If it does, then it has the potential to speed up "make check" quite a lot!
Some remarks: 1. it may be possible that makepkg recognises dependencies looking like ("package>=3" "package<5") I don't really know how pacman will deal with that. The important thing is that the source repository is consistent. 2. I don't know how to handle non-existent dependencies: for the moment I assume they are fulfilled, because for example they are system packages. -- Rémy.