Re: Another take on package relationship substvars
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 09:40:22PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: libgcc-13-dev
> Recommends: ${dep:libcdev}
> Depends: gcc-13-base (= ${gcc:Version}), ${dep:libgcc}, ${dep:libssp},
> ${dep:libgomp}, ${dep:libitm},
> ${dep:libatomic}, ${dep:libbtrace}, ${dep:libasan}, ${dep:liblsan},
> ${dep:libtsan}, ${dep:libubsan}, ${dep:libhwasan}, ${dep:libvtv},
> ${dep:libqmath}, ${dep:libunwinddev}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
>
> Some of those are undefined depending on the architecture. And most of
> these are unused in other packages, however passing every macro into a
> package, independent if it's used or not.
>
> Not seeing any benefit in this feature (hard failure).
Your examples aren't what Niels refers to as "relationship substvars",
so aren't affected either way by this proposal.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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