Re: Bug#489811: cdd-dev: Should support enhances and test-* tasksel headers
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I noticed one thing while testing the new feature. I suspect we do
not want to generate metapackages (as in entries in debian/control)
for such enhancing packages. At least, I suspect we should have a way
to avoid generating metapackages for tasks.
Well, I can't really see why an existing metapackage should harm but
there is no need to ignore a wish for such a feature to suppress
generating a metaackage (for whatever reasons).
--- /usr/share/cdd-dev/cdd-gen-control 2008-02-07 11:52:38.000000000 +0100
+++ cdd-gen-control 2008-07-08 16:53:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@
sub gen_control {
my $task;
for $task (sort keys %taskinfo) {
+ next if (defined $taskinfo{$task}{Enhances});
print "Package: $task\n";
my $header;
Not sure if this is the best way to handle it. Perhaps better to have
a separate task header for this, like the leaf header used to control
tasksel tasks. What is your view on this?
My view is that this linking of two different things (Enhances and
suppressing the generation of a metapackage) by a single flag is not
the best idea. I just learned that you should have one flag for one
feature and thus I would prefer the implementation via another
flag (may be leaf - just noticed that Leaf is not documented yet and
we should definitely document Enhances as well). I know that your
patch would work for the moment - but it is a quick and dirty hack.
Kind regards
Andreas.
PS: I would really prefer if you would just work on
svn://svn.debian.org/cdd/cdd/trunk/cdd/
with your enhancements. I personally do symlink from
/usr/share/cdd-dev/* to my working directory to not need to
build the package over and over ...
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