Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.5
Severity: wishlist
Dear devscripts maintainers,
nowadays it is common to have, say, "debhelper-compat (= X), dh-lua" as
the first entries in Build-Depends to signal which build system is used.
wrap-and-sort , however, does not treat these first entries any
differently than other entries, so they often end up somewhere in the
middle of the sorted dependency list.
To reproduce this issue:
$ d=$(mktemp -d); cd $d; mkdir debian
$ printf "Build-Depends:\n debhelper-compat (= 13),\n dh-lua,\n bats,\n
desktop-file-utils,\n zip,\n" > debian/control
$ cp debian/control debian/control.orig
$ wrap-and-sort -sat
$ diff -u debian/control{.orig,}
--- debian/control.orig
+++ debian/control
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Build-Depends:
- debhelper-compat (= 13),
- dh-lua,
bats,
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
desktop-file-utils,
+ dh-lua,
zip,
Could wrap-and-sort treat the packages related to the build system
(debhelper, debhelper-compat, dh-*, cdbs) in a special way and always
place them as the first entries in Build-Depends?
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
