On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 09:30:43PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > There was a bug filed requesting adding custom output format support > (#214566) but it was closed “recently”. I think there might be some > value in that, but not for the intended use the submitters seemed > to want it. > > I'd be interested to know how you'd want to use this new output/option > as from the PoC script you provide it is not obvious to me, as it > prints both build-depends and build-conflicts in an indistinguishable > way, and it includes version constraints and alternative dependencies.
My specific use case at the moment is setting up a container
*description* (not a container) with all the dependencies I need to do
development on a package[1].
I could run apt-get build-dep inside the container and get the
development environment installed, but then I lose the ability of being
able to describe it in a terse way, and I can only do something along
the lines of listing all installed packages in the container and their
versions, which is too noisy for an average bug report.
The way I chopped dpkg-checkbuilddeps was a first approximation. Given
that now we have `apt-get satisfy`, my next step would be to have my
hacked version print a list of arguments for it, which can include
"Conflicts:", but which can already be preprocessed to reduce some noise
like packages required or not required from the target architecture.
More generally, I'd like Debian to have, as a standard, something
similar to `rpmspec --parse filename.spec | grep BuildRequires`
because I see it reimplemented so many times (pbuilder, sbuild, and so
on) that my instincts screams invoking the rule of three and
refactor[2].
Enrico
[1] some background context can be found in
https://github.com/ARPA-SIMC/moncic-ci/issues/74
although I'm expanding on that, see for example
https://github.com/ARPA-SIMC/moncic-ci/issues/77
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_programming)
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