Package: debhelper Version: 13.24.2 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
With compat 14, it will be possible to automatically add a `Provides` field and therefore it becomes much more interesting to automate features like this.
What we want here is that exactly one package has a `Provides: dh-sequence-foo`. For the 80% case, the package containing `foo.pm` will be the one with the `Provides`. However, there is at least the exception where `libdebhelper-perl` contains all the sequences provided by `debhelper` and you really need the `debhelper` package for them to work.
Perhaps we can get away with the logic:
* Check if any binary from the same source provides dh-sequence-foo.
- If no, add dh-sequence-foo to the Provides of the package
containing foo.pm.
- If yes, skip foo.pm
This would work for `debhelper` and any similar case where the relevant
packages are built from the same source. I think this would be
acceptable in practice.
Best regards, Niels
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