new known problem: should be rebuilt with newer tools

packages producing warnings from e.g. install-info or tex-common

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
more missing copyright exceptions

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
rework exceptions for ia32-libs

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lib/conf: add get_distros() method

returns the split upgrade-test-distros list

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
lib/conf: use get_distros()

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lib/conf: add get_start_distro() method

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p-s: use the new get_distros() and get_start_distro() methods

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p-r: generate default descriptions

two different descriptions depending on the test: install/purge or
distupgrade

the description setting in piuparts.conf can be omitted to use the
default description

if the description setting in piuparts.conf starts/ends with a '+',
it will be appended/prepended to the default description

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p.conf: use generated descriptions

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lib/db: add support for dependency sections

add set_dependency_databases() method
compute the package states of the dependency dbs

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>
p-m: load dependency sections

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p-r: load dependency sections

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p-r: cache the most recently used base section

recomputing the package states is a bit expensive (cpu)
caching them all is very expensive (memory)

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lib/db: lookup package state recursively

for packages that do not exist in the current db try the
dependency dbs before falling back to does-not-exist

only recurse one level to avoid infinite loops

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>
lib/db: lookup providers recursively

return the union of the providers from the current db
and all dependency dbs

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>
lib/db: lookup packages recursively

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lib/db: lookup package dependencies recursively

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p.conf: set PYTHONPATH when running piuparts from git

piuparts needs to use piupartslib to read distros.conf

setting PYTHONPATH is only needed for running piuparts from git

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
p: use DistroConfig

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distros.conf: add target-release

e.g. backports and experimental should be used with
apt-get -t <target-release> ...

Signed-off-by: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>