Package: d-shlipdeps
Severity: wishlist
Hi Junichi,
Numerous times I've had to include slightly modified versions of the
d-shlibs scripts into packages, when used with unusual package names not
(yet) added to the growing internal list of "workarounds".
I've reported some issues and you've been swift to improve the tools.
Other times - typically when dealing with packages not officially part
of Debian - I have not bothered to report the problems.
Please add some way of extending/overridign the hardcoded regexes.
I imagine something like this (inspired by the recent #374049):
d-shlibs/d-devlibdeps \
--override 's/libstdc++6-dev// # BUG#374049' \
--override 's/libstdc++5-dev// # BUG#374049 with sarge backport' \
debian/mp4-0-dev.substvars debian/tmp/usr/lib/libmp4av.so \
debian/tmp/usr/lib/libmpeg4ip_gnu.so \
debian/tmp/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so
Also the files debian/d-shlibs-overrides and
debian/$PACKAGE.d-shlibs-overrides could be consulted as well.
Please not the support for comments. I believe sed supports this already
but if my memory is wrong then a simple grep in front of it would do the
trick.
The regexes would need to be used _before_ hardcoded ones, I believe, in
order to be able to possibly override existing ones. But I am not quite
sure about that.
The use of such overrides is of course discouraged - it would be much
better if the tool itself contained support for all possible scenarios.
I suggest the use of overrides should trigger a notice (which also lists
all comments, if any) promoting to file wishlist bugreports :-)
How does this sound?
- Jonas
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