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and subject line Bug#1139214: fixed in pkg-kde-tools 0.22.0
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regarding pkg-kde-tools: dh_qmldeps (v0.22) for compat 14
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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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--- Begin Message ---
Source: pkg-kde-tools
Source-Version: 0.22.0
Done: Sandro Knauß <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pkg-kde-tools, 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.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Sandro Knauß <[email protected]> (supplier of updated pkg-kde-tools package)
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:01:36 +0200
Source: pkg-kde-tools
Architecture: source
Version: 0.22.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Sandro Knauß <[email protected]>
Closes: 1139214
Changes:
pkg-kde-tools (0.22.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Release to unstable (Closes: #1139214).
* Add new arguments to use examples files in qmlfiles.
* Move partial demotion detection change to Debhelper 14.
* Build with Debhelper 13 (as dh_python3 cannot handle debhelper 14).
.
pkg-kde-tools (0.22.0~rc2) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* fix autopkgtests.
* Fix dh_plasmaversionbase to detect correct debheler level.
.
pkg-kde-tools (0.22.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* dh_qmldeps:
- Prepare for tests.
- Add autopkgtests for debhelper 13-15.
- Split demotion handling into own functions.
- Add new -d paramenter to control the dependency field
where qml deps are added.
- qml examples dependencies end in recommends.
* Support -d paramenter in dh_qmldeps and .qmlfiles.
.
pkg-kde-tools (0.22.0~pre1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
[ Sandro Knauß ]
* dh_qmldeps:
- Only warn about not found files for pkg instead of an error.
- Do not treat missing qml6:Depends anymore as error in debhelper 14.
- Fail if no qml file is found and it is a single binary package.
- replace self crafted substvar handling with debian.substvars.
- import pkgkde via relative import (better for debugging).
- suppress warnings from debian.deb822 in normal run.
- trigger dh_qmldeps after dh_installdeb instead of before
dh_gencontrol (needed for debhelper 14).
- use deb822 filter contextmanager.
* dh_plasmaversionbase:
- execute after dh_installdeb instead of before dh_control.
- only check for plasma var if debhelper < 14.
* Move deb822 filter function to pkgkde and create a contextmanager.
* Use machine readable copyright format.
* Update copyright and license information.
* Bump Standrds-Version to 4.7.4 (remove Priority and Rules-Requires-
Root field).
* Add myself to uploaders.
* Reorder Files paragraphs in debian/copyright by directory depth.
* Use dh_python3 for the python dependencies.
* Use debhelper 14 to build.
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