]] George Danchev | It adds -f option which tries to prepare such a list via facilities | provided by AptPkg. List comes to STDOUT, while warnings to STDERR, so | users can filter these as well. Build-Conflicts are added as package-.
A minor thing, I'd rather just have this enabled by default. The build is going to fail anyway, so spitting out three extra lines isn't a big deal. | The problem here is that frontends only handle '=' relation, at best, | so we can only pass them package=version regardless of whether user | supplied >>, <<, | >=, <= or = in their Build-Depends and Build-Coflicts line from | >debian/control. | | That -f option does not try to be very smart, and after verifying that | Build- Depends/Conflicts could be satisfied it leaves the package | version selection to the frontend based on its current settings. I think this is fine. It solves 95% of the cases people are interested in. [...] | 1) Would you accept patches like that, based on AptPkg, i.e. is it too | intrusive for you? I can see your reasons if you prefer to avoid the | extra dependency on libapt-pkg-perl. Other people have written about how to make this optional, and particularly if this is just used in --minimal-versions-only-please mode, I don't see the problem. I don't have commit rights, and I haven't looked at your patch yet, but as an idea on how to approach this, it sounds good. | 2) Introduce a separate tool in a separate source/binary package which | could then depends on whatever is needed. If so, there's misc stuff in pbuilder which does this already. I'd rather have dpkg-checkbuilddeps spit out and apt-gettable line. | 3) Rewrite that with calls to `apt-cache policy' (to get available | package versions) and `dpkg --compare-versions' (for version | comparisons), which is not a sign of great engineering ;-) Let's not try to parse our own output. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
