On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2026 at 12:41:59 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 03:37:59PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > > This is a likely a consequence of relationship substvars. Which ever tool
> > > adds those dependencies (I do not know which it is, but likely `sphinxdoc`
> > > since it is the only add-on sequence I noticed in devref) will need to
> > > evaluate how to handle the case where these should not be hard
> > > dependencies.
> >
> > i'm confused, d/control has this:
> >
> > Depends: ${misc:Depends}
> > Recommends: debian-policy,
> > sensible-utils,
> > ${sphinxdoc:Depends},
> >
> > why is this turned into a depends?
>
> debhelper compat level 14 automatically takes all substvars named like
> foo:Depends (etc.) and adds them to Depends (etc.), without them needing to
> be explicitly listed in d/control. See debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist(7)
> for full details.
ic. i still find this confusing as ${sphinxdoc:Depends} above is listed under
Recommends:.
> To take something that is normally a Depends and downgrade it to a
> Recommends, you'd need either a new feature in dh_sphinxdoc giving it an
> option to generate a sphinxdoc:Recommends substvar instead (analogous to the
> way that dpkg-shlibdeps -dRecommends generates shlibs:Recommends), or to go
> back to compat level 13 (as you've done).
well, going back to compat level 13 is a workaround for now, but it will stop
being supported eventually...
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Holger
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