Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
We've been implementing Built-Using support in the archive to allow us to better deal with GPL compliance: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00852.html As discussed on IRC, I'd like to make dpkg-gencontrol not complain about the field: 15:36 < mhy> buxy: just looking at Fields.pm and trying to work out how I should declare Built-Using in my patch for it. I think it should be dependency => 'union' and dep_order => 10, but I'm not sure 15:40 < buxy> mhy: yeah, should be ok and allowed => ALL_PKG 15:41 * mhy nods - that's what I had 15:41 < mhy> I'll push a git branch and submit a bug / merge request 15:42 < buxy> mhy: please document the field in man/deb-control.5 also 15:43 < buxy> (and man/deb-src-control.5) 15:50 < mhy> buxy: done. I'll submit a bug pointing at my branch 15:50 < buxy> thanks 15:51 < mhy> we might want helper scripts and so on later to make life easier for maintainers, but my first priority was to get dpkg-gencontrol not to throw it out by default (obviously it can be worked around using -D for now I've pushed a built-using branch to: git://git.debian.org/users/mhy/dpkg.git The commit is: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/mhy/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6ccb466ffc71ac8f497c881dfa6e0441719caed5 Please consider merging it. Note that dpkg-deb still complains that it's a user-defined field although it gets added to the binary control file anyways. I looked at patching it into lib/dpkg/parse.c as well but wasn't sure how far down this road to go - do I need to patch it in as a true dependency field in lib/dpkg/dpkg-db.h even though it doesn't matter for dep resolution? If so, does support need to be added to dselect/pkgdepcon.cc and src/depcon.c even if just to ignore it? Thanks, Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.10.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
