Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

[IOhannes m zmölnig <umlaeute@debian.org>]

Am 22. Februar 2024 20:25:32 MEZ schrieb Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>:
>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}?


While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these automatic additions.
I think there are some packages that even demote `${shlibs:Depends}` to Recommends.


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