priority 538710 wishlist
tags 538710 + wontfix
kthxbye
Markus Heberling dijo [Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:19:41PM +0200]:
> Package: dh-make-drupal
> Version: 0.4-2
>
> The dh-make-drupal script generates the Depends-field for a module.
> Below is the generated Metadata dor the calendar module.
> mar...@bespin:~$ dpkg -I drupal6-mod-calendar_2.1-1_all.deb
> (...)
> Depends: drupal6, drupal6-mod-views, drupal6-mod-date-api,
> drupal6-mod-date-timezone
> (...)
> As you can see it generated dependencys for drupal6-mod-date-api,
> drupal6-mod-date-timezone. The date module fullfills these dependencys, but
> dh-make-drupal does not generate the
> coresponding Provides section:
Umh... I am unsure about this, as it would create huge amounts of
provides: relations which would be meaningless. This program aims at
helping you create Debian packages out of Drupal modules, but cannot
replace a human.
To back my position, I checked how many modules does each of my
packaged Drupal modules provide:
for i in $(dpkg --get-selections|grep drupal6-mod|awk '{print $1}'); do dpkg
-L $i | grep '\.module$' | wc -l;done | sort|uniq -c
21 1
5 2
1 3
1 4
3 5
1 6
2 9
So, even if most modules in this (small) sample do provide only one
module, I have two installed on my system which provide 9!
In any case, I would like doing just the opposite: Instead of
providing too many unneeded packages, I would like the packages to
depend on the right modules. There must be enough information in
Drupal to do this - How does 'calendar' solve this? When you install
(by hand) 'calendar', how do you know you should not search for
date-api and date-timezone but just date instead?
Greetings,
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