Re: Summary? Re: source dependencies - and recomndations
On %M %N, Steve Greenland wrote
> In an attempt to get closure, I'm going summarize what I've seen
> so far. I'm not trying specify exact syntax here.
great. thanks.
> Case 2:
>
> Goal: package rebuilds, from some minimum functionality level
> to everything.
>
> Solution:
>
> Source-Depends: x,y
> Source-Recommends: z
> Source-Suggests: t
>
> Not sure how architecture needs are fit into this, except as "if you're
> building on i386, we suggest you install 't'". Of course, we could add a
> -<arch> field to each of these.
For autobuilding, the build script will combine all three Fields to one,
and threat it as a single Source-Depends. So th effect is a optical
effect IMO.
> Opinion: I like the Case 1, Source-Depends, Source-Depends-<arch>
> solution. It's easy to explain, easy to add, and would seem easy to
> implement. The alternate would work, but seems like overkill, and has
> more opportunities to get wrong.
second.
> I don't like Case 2, mostly because I disagree that we ought to be
> solving that goal. If you want (re-)build the debian package, then it's
> not sufficient, if you don't, you're probably working with the original
> source anyway.
we can united case 2 and case 1, but i don't think that case 2 has any
advantages.
andreas
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