+[[!tag patch patch/core]]
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I like the idea of [[tips/integrated_issue_tracking_with_ikiwiki]], and I do so on several wikis. However, as far as I can tell, ikiwiki has no functionality which can represent dependencies between bugs and allow pagespecs to select based on dependencies. For instance, I can't write a pagespec which selects all bugs with no dependencies on bugs not marked as done. --[[JoshTriplett]]
> I started having a think about this. I'm going to start with the idea that expanding
>>>>> then the last definition (baz) takes precedence.
>>>>> In the process of writing this I think I've come up with a way to change this back the way it was, still using closures. -- [[Will]]
+>>> My [[remove-pagespec-merge|should_optimise_pagespecs]] branch has now
+>>> solved all this by deleting the offending function :-) --[[smcv]]
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>> Secondly, it seems that there are two types of dependency, and ikiwiki
>> currently only handles one of them. The first type is "Rebuild this
>> page when any of these other pages changes" - ikiwiki handles this.
>>>>> possibly by adding a dependency of the second type along with the dependency of the first type.
>>>>>> An example of the current system not tracking enough data is
->>>>>> where A inlines B which inlines C. A change to C will cause B to
->>>>>> rebuild, but A will not "notice" that B has implicitly changed.
->>>>>> That example suggests it might be fixable without explicitly storing
->>>>>> data, by causing a rebuild of B to be treated as a change to B.
+>>>>>> described in [[bugs/transitive_dependencies]].
>>>>>> --[[Joey]]
>>>>> The second type of dependency is a little more tricky. For each page, we'd need a list of pagespecs that