Re: Generating stricter dependencies on python3-protobuf rdeps
Hi Adrian (2023.03.07_10:09:35_+0000)
> Creating an own debhelper addon similar to dh_numpy3 would work for
> automatically creating such dependencies, but is there any way for
> python3-protobuf to inject such versioned runtime dependencies into
> python3:Depends that does not require every rdep to manually add
> addon usage?
Yes, via pydist files, see /usr/share/doc/dh-python/README.PyDist
They are consulted when translating Python .dist-info/.egg-info requires
into Debian dependencies.
You can see a (more complex) example in cffi:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-cffi/-/blob/master/debian/gen-backend-versions.py
SR
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