-=| Andreas Beckmann, Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:29:47PM +0200 |=-
> what do you think about having an option to add packages to the
> dependency list without overwriting the defaults and generated deps?
> I'd suggest allowing the arguments to --depends etc. to be prefixed with
> '+' which means appending, not overwriting. E.g.
>
> dh-make-perl ... --depends "+ foo, bar (>> 0), baz (== 42)"
>
> Would result in
>
> Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0), ${misc:Depends}, libfo-o-bar-perl, foo,
> bar (>> 0), baz (== 42)I think this should be the default mode and the current --depends behaviour should be moved to --force-depends. OTOH, I don't use --depends at all and always look in the generated debian/control and adjust it to fit the situation... What do others say? -- dam JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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