Re: Metapackaging
On Sun Aug 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the
> > ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" =>
> > ./package-name.deb generated, IMHO. I once had ambitions to add
> > that UX (either as a patch to equivs, or as a separate equivs-ng)
> > but I never got around to it.
>
> That may be acceptable for packages that don't have any Depends: or
> Provides: lines or what-have-you.
I would want this for packages which had depends/provides as well: my
expectation would be that the generated dummy package would also have
those depends/provides. It must not have been clear from my brief
illustration, but my envisaged "equivs" tool would look up the package
name from dpkg metadata.
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