Am 22. Februar 2024 20:25:32 MEZ schrieb Boyuan Yang <by...@debian.org>:
>在 2024-02-22星期四的 19:32 +0100，Niels Thykier写道：
>> I think our package helper tooling should just automatically aggregate
>> all provided substvars of the format ${*:Depends} and append it the
>> Depends field. Rinse and repeat for other relationship fields.
>>
>> The list of fields where this is applied would be curated, so it only
>> applies to known relationship fields where we feel it makes sense. My
>> starting list would be:
>>
>> * Any dependency field, that is: Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends, and
>> Suggests
>>
>> * The Provides field.
>>
>> I am omitting Breaks, Conflicts, and Replaces because I am not aware of
>> any users of these at the moment. I am open to adding them, if there is
>> a strong use-case.
>
>Can we also consider ${*:Built-Using} as typically seen in
>${sphinxdoc:Built-Using}?
While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these automatic
additions.
I think there are some packages that even demote `${shlibs:Depends}` to
Recommends.
mfh.her.fsr
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