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Re: Another take on package relationship substvars



在 2024-02-22星期四的 19:32 +0100,Niels Thykier写道:
> I think our package helper tooling should just automatically aggregate 
> all provided substvars of the format ${*:Depends} and append it the 
> Depends field. Rinse and repeat for other relationship fields.
> 
> The list of fields where this is applied would be curated, so it only 
> applies to known relationship fields where we feel it makes sense. My 
> starting list would be:
> 
>   * Any dependency field, that is: Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends, and
>     Suggests
> 
>   * The Provides field.
> 
> I am omitting Breaks, Conflicts, and Replaces because I am not aware of 
> any users of these at the moment. I am open to adding them, if there is 
> a strong use-case.

Can we also consider ${*:Built-Using} as typically seen in ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using}?
This is another field that people keep forget adding. While missing
this field is not severely harmful, having it automatically handled
would be beneficial.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang

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