Hello Andreas
As you noticed the debian/control file is auto generated depending from > the content of the package pool. In unusual cases this could mean that > without any manual change in the source the resulting source package > could be different from a previous version simply because packages were > added (or removed) from the package pool. These kind of changes are > not reflected inside debian/changelog ... but should. I imagine the > following for debian/changelog (here using Debian Med example): > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > debian-med (1.14) unstable; urgency=low > > <start_manual_changes> > * Build-Depends: blends-dev (>= 0.6.17) > * ... > <end_manual_changes> > > * Changes in metapackage dependencies > - med-bio: > added: package_a, package_b, ... > removed (optional): ... > - med-... > * New metapackages > - med-... > > -- Andreas Tille <[email protected]> [creation date / time] > > debian-med (1.13.2) unstable; urgency=low > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > To solve this we need some way to store the old dependency list of > the previous package. Some json file comes to mind and it would > not harm to store the dependency status of *all* versions inside > such a json database. This could in addition come very handy for > the team analysis I did in > > git://git.debian.org/git/blends/website.git > > in dir misc/team_analysis_tools > > which in this case would boil donw to graphing this json file rather > than checking VCS tags. > Ok now I understand. The json file solution to save the dependency status of all the versions seems quite nice and straightforward. Also it will be will easy manageable with python and as you said quite useful for your team analysis. The next days I will start preparing my proposal. Should I also add to the project details the changelog entry creation to track the added and removed packages(per task) between releases? Is there anything else you would suggest me to check? Kind regards Emmanouil Kiagias
