Re: Accepted blends 0.6.101 (source) into experimental
Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:43:04AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
>> >
>> > The usage of Recommends+Suggests was always permitted in 'classic'
>> > format. The only difference between 1.0 and 1.1 is that in 1.1 it is
>> > permitted that Depends remain Depends while in 1.0 it was downgraded
>> > to Recommends in any case.
>>
>> So, Recommends were never downgraded to Suggests, resp. Depends and
>> Recommends were synonyms?
>
> Yes. Depends and Recommends were synonyms. The old code made sure that
> no Depends will remain in the resulting control file. May be the term
> "Format" is not very well choosen since the format of the tasks files
> can not really be distinguished. Its rather the *interpretation* of the
> file that has changed. In 1.1 it is permitted that a Depends remains
> (and thus Recommends need to be specified explicitly).
"Format" should refer to syntax *and* semantic. So if we do an
incompatible change in how things are interpreted, we should give a new
version number.
And the old format allowed (at least factically) also to end lines with
a backslash, while the new format is in contrast strict Deb822.
> The only reason why I did a global s/Depends/Recommends/ in Debian Med
> is that it is now more explicit (the degraded Depends was confusing
> for some people).
You may now upgrade Debian Med tasks as well with the "-U" flag.
>> for key, value in p.items():
>> if key == 'Recommends': # This downgrades Recommends
>> key = 'Suggests' # to Suggests
> ... but only if the package is not available in the target
> distribution.
The check for availability happens later (in the "fix_dependencies()" method).
> I'll test as soon as possible. I can even test a commit before
> uploading if you confirm that this is your target for an upload.
I do the development in my personal salsa project:
https://salsa.debian.org/olebole/python-debian-blends
You can take out "blends.py" there and use it as blend-gen-tasks. Take
care since some flags are changed, and the tool directly writes the
files instead of dumping to stdout.
Cheers
Ole
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