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Diffstat (limited to 'bpkg/pkg-build.cxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | bpkg/pkg-build.cxx | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-build.cxx b/bpkg/pkg-build.cxx index 0ebe992..fac79c2 100644 --- a/bpkg/pkg-build.cxx +++ b/bpkg/pkg-build.cxx @@ -4861,7 +4861,9 @@ namespace bpkg sp = pdb->find<selected_package> (pa.name); // Make sure that the package is known. Only allow to unhold an - // unknown orphaned selected package. + // unknown orphaned selected package (with the view that there is + // a good chance it will get dropped; and if not, such an unhold + // should be harmless). // if (!existing && find_available (repo_configs, @@ -4869,9 +4871,10 @@ namespace bpkg !sys ? pa.constraint : nullopt).empty ()) { // Don't fail if the selected package is held and satisfies the - // constraints, if specified. Note that we may still fail later if - // the dependency is requested to be deorphaned and still have the - // dependents. + // constraints, if specified. Note that we may still fail later + // with the "not available from its dependents' repositories" + // error if the dependency is requested to be deorphaned and all + // its dependents are orphaned. // if (!(sp != nullptr && sp->hold_package && |