Add infra to inject arbitrary dependencies, in particular plasma-base dependencies
Aim of this MR is to allow for auto-injection of plasma-base dependencies (as discussed on IRC and mailing list) by doing the following:
- add a new script
dh_injectdependencies
which can add arbitrary dependencies likedh_injectdependencies breaks: "plasma-base (>= 5.22)" depends: "plasma-base (>= 5.21)"
- add a DebHelper sequence
injectdependencies
so that one can use it with--with
- add a
plasma.mk
makefile snippet that auto-computes the correct versions and inject them.
As an example, I changed one Plasma package debian/rules
file to:
- add
include /usr/share/pkg-kde-tools/qt-kde-team/1/plasma.mk
- add
injectdependencies
to the--with
list
In total it starts as:
include /usr/share/pkg-kde-tools/qt-kde-team/1/plasma.mk
%:
dh $@ --with kf5,pkgkde_symbolshelper,injectdependencies --buildsystem kf5 --without build_stamp
- add
Breaks: ${misc:Breaks}
to each binary package stanza
With that, each binary package gets (for version 5.20.3) additional
Depends: plasma-base (>= 5.20)
Breaks: plasma-base (>= 5.21)
The above changes have to be done only once, and new versions will automatically pick up the correct major.minor dep/break.
Questions
I had contemplated putting the code of the injectsequences into the kf5 sequence (Debhelper), it only adds a call to dh_injectsequences before dh_gencontrol
, and without an override it does nothing. By that, no addition to the --with
code is necessary. What do other think about this approach?
Another thing to ponder is renaming the script to dh_injectrels
or dh_injectrelations
.