HI Andreas, hi all, On Sa 05 Aug 2017 13:25:48 CEST, Andreas Tille wrote:
2. We create bugs for all known build-dependencies of blends-dev to 2.1 'sed s/^Depends:/Recommends:/ -i tasks/*` 2.2 insert a "Format: https://blends.d.o/format"; as first line to indicate that the new format is used 3. Once all switched (should be not that difficult, due to the straightforward change), we upload a new version of blends-dev that checks the format id and a) either exits with error if it is not there or a wrong one b) prints a depretation warning and proceeds with the old style in that case Because of the trivial change, I would prefer a).I admit for the sake of simplicity (and the fact that we have only a few Blends we could deal with easily) we could simply fix blends-dev to accept Recommends. After this we could inform those few Blends maintainers (I'll be responsible for med, science and junior), I guess Debian GIS and Debian Games are also happy about the change, no idea about Debian Multimedia and how/whether it is maintained at all, Debian Accessibilities only uses web sentinel (no metapackages - I would do the change here as well) and finally EzGo which is kind of a riddle to me. In a second round we could later change the behaviour of Depends. I agree that technically that's a weak solution but should work if somebody intends to reproduce older packages since we would fail to reproduce older packages from older Git commits. However, I do not consider this a strong argument over burning developer time with implementing and testing a more complex versioning + format system.
I have now pushed several commits for debian-blends. Unfortunately, they stack on each other and earlier code gets reworked by later commits. Never push before you are done with full testing... Well.
Nonetheless, the current status of blends-dev is:
1. it now fully suppors two modes "nodepends=true" (aka -D) and
"nodepends=false (aka without -D)
2. the "nodepends=true mode is the default
=> this means, all blends packages can stay as they are!!!!!
=> no need to depromote packages in task files from Depends: to Recommends:
3. I fully reworked the control file generation for nodepends=false
=> this closes #825172, make sure to include that in debian/changelog
4. the nodepends=false mode can be enabled in the blends package's Makefile
by setting GENCONTROL_DEPENDS = true
=> see
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-edu/debian-edu.git/commit/?id=621a2498bdc6127cc57c4ecfcad158300d9dfa0f
for an example
5. if nodepends=false (i.e. Depends become Depends), then also packages
are checked now for availability in unstable and depromoted to
Suggests: if missing
Hope this works well for everyone, feedback welcome! Greets, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4354) 8390 139 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de
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