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regarding debhelper: document dh_qmldeps compat 14 changes
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Package: debhelper
Version: 13.31
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: block 1072698 by -1
Hey,
I write here as author of dh_qmldeps a tool to detect QML depdendecies
in files. The tool only returns a list of dependencies that are placed
into qml6:Depends - as the tool cannot know if the qml file is needed or
not.
Before wrting this bug report I read the referrenced documation:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/msg00030.html
and https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/02/msg00230.html.
Still I'm not sure how to fix dh_qmldeps or how to do demotion for
specific packages.
I have several examples where a qml dependecy needs to be demoted in the
Qt/KDE maintainer umbrella.
(full demotion):
kquickimageeditor-dev: only the examples have qml files. That's why
recommending all the qml depdendecy seems resonable. The normal usecase
of an dev package is to be used to build other packages. Installing the
dependencies for examples is too much.
(partial demotion):
libkf6purpose-bin: A tool to provide functionality allover the
plasma desktop to share files and other things. As it support a bunch of
different targets. You may want to not install every dependency as you
do not want to install kdeconnect so do not depend on
qml6-module-org-kde-kdeconnect. And at that time where the recommend was
added, qml6-module-org-kde-kdeconnect does not existed yet in unstable.
qml6-module-org-kde-purpose is needed to be demoted as otherwise we
would face a circular dependency.
I know, partion demotion doesn't work within Dh 13 too.
So I created a workaround to implement it:
After generation the dependency list, go through the
Depends/Recommends/... fields in d/control and removes all the explicit
mentioned dpendendencies of those fields.
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/pkg-kde-tools/-/blob/master/pythonlib/qmldeps.py?ref_type=heads#L396
That works and would work in Dh 14 too - but as far as I understand it
is against the idea behind the automatic use of the substvars fields,
that does not support demotion.
At least from the documentation it sounds like the tool (dh_qmldeps)
needs to support manipulating the vars.
I think it would be great, if there is a way to demote in Dh 14 without
the tools to support manipulating. Because if no tool exists than a
sed/awk needs to be used and this is error-prune.
eg. to demote foo to suggests and "bar" to recommends.
# qml6:Depends=foo,bar,zig
dh_manipulate --field "qml6" --demote-from Depends --suggests "foo"
--recommends "bar"
# qml6:Depends=zig
# qml6:Suggests=foo
# qml6:Recommends=bar
The other way would be to specify/recommend the tool API e.g. for dh_qmldeps,
dh_python3,...:
* support -d parameter for full demotion
* support --pre-depends, --recommends, --suggests to promote/demote specific
automatic
detected depenedencies as pre-depends, recommends, suggests instead of depends
Regards,
hefee
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Debian Release: forky/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100,
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.19.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
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ii dh-autoreconf 22
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.15.0-1
ii dpkg 1.23.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.23.7
ii dwz 0.16-4
ii file 1:5.46-5+b1
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ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.7
ii man-db 2.13.1-1
ii perl 5.40.1-7+b1
ii po-debconf 1.0.22
debhelper recommends no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 13.32
Done: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:44:59 +0000
Source: debhelper
Architecture: source
Version: 13.32
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Closes: 1072698 1132737 1133692 1134898 1136120 1138620
Changes:
debhelper (13.32) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ]
* autoscripts: enable update-rc.d and deb-systemd-helper with $DPKG_ROOT
* autoscripts/postrm-systemd{,-user}: stop testing for deb-systemd-helper
* autoscripts/postinst-systemd-restart: do not do a daemon-reload when
DPKG_ROOT
is non-empty.
Thanks to Helmut Grohne <[email protected]>
* dh_installtmpfiles: reproducible tmpfiles order for postrm scripts
.
[ Miao Wang ]
* filedoublearray: do not resolve symlink when converting to absolute paths
.
[ Niels Thykier ]
* dh_clean: remove obsolete `compat` check
* dh_installtmpfiles: Remove note that `tmpfiles.d` is for `systemd`-only
(Closes: 1134898)
* dh_installdocs: Remove mention of where doc-base files are installed.
Thanks to Jay Burstin <[email protected]> (Closes: #1138620)
* Dh_Lib.pm: Fix a (consistent) typo in a var name and fix some state
resetting
* upgrade-checklist: Avoid implying `X-DH-Compat` is the new default.
(Closes: #1072698)
.
[ Dorle Osterode ]
* Fix doubling of word in man page
* Fix meaning of "ahead of time"
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Fix header for `dh_computeautosubstvars`
* dh_computeautosubstvars: process next package instead of returning in
parallel
build
* Do not compute `Commands` for `udeb` (Closes: #1136120)
.
[ Charles Plessy ]
* Do not compress R data files.
.
[ Helmut Grohne ]
* autoconf: export standard build tools
* Add function get_build_tools to Dh_Lib.
.
[ Américo Monteiro ]
* Update on Portuguese translation of the man pages (Closes: #1132737)
.
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* dh_installsystemd: Remove note that `tmpfiles.d` is for `systemd`-only
* dh_installtmpfiles: add dependency on tmpfiles implementation
.
[ Sandro Knauß ]
* Document dh_qmldeps changes with v14. (Closes: #1133692)
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