Public bug reported:
Microsoft builds and recommends [1] building the packages `dotnet-
runtime-deps-6.0`, `dotnet-runtime-deps-7.0`, `dotnet-runtime-deps-8.0`.
These contain the dependencies needed by the .NET runtime for the
specific version.
This is useful if a developer created a self contained application that
is bundled with a runtime, because the bundled runtime still has
dependencies [2]. Having these packages improves the developer
experience, because developers do not need to install (& keep track of
changes to) runtime dependencies manually.
[Implementation details]
I already looked into how we would add these packages:
- `dotnet-runtime-deps-X.0` would just be an empty package
- `dotnet-runtime-X.0` would depend on `dotnet-runtime-deps-X.0`
- the `libicuXX` depends would move to `dotnet-runtime-deps-X.0`
- We need to capture the ${shlibs:Depends} of `dotnet-runtime-X.0` and copy it
I looked up that dh_shlibdeps generates `debian/*.substvars` where * is
the package name. The .substvars file will contain the substitution
values. Then we just need to "smartly" copy the values over from
`dotnet-runtime-X.0.substvar` into `dotnet-runtime-deps-X.0.substvar`
before calling dh_gencontrol in override_dh_gencontrol.
[1]
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/distribution-packaging#recommended-packages
[2]
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu-install?pivots=os-linux-ubuntu-2404&tabs=dotnet8#dependencies
** Affects: dotnet6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Triaged
** Affects: dotnet7 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Triaged
** Affects: dotnet8 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Triaged
** Changed in: dotnet8 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: dotnet8 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Also affects: dotnet7 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: dotnet7 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: dotnet7 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Also affects: dotnet6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: dotnet6 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: dotnet6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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[Feature Request] Build dotnet-runtime-deps packages
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