On January 17, 2023 11:01:45 PM UTC, Tomasz Rybak <serp...@debian.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 09:20 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:08:01AM +0100, Tomasz Rybak wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> > After fixing #1016031 "psycopg3: binary package name should be python3-
>> > psycopg"
>> > (I renamed package names, full changes:
>> > * python3-psycopg3 -> python3-psycopg
>> > * python3-psycopg3-pool -> python3-psycopg-pool
>> > * python-psycopg3-doc -> python3-psycopg-doc)
>> > I tried to rebuild reverse dependencies,
>> > i.e. pgcli and python3-pgspecial.
>> > Rebuild went without problems, new packages are the same
>> > as old ones, but their binary packages still depend on python3-
>> > psycopg3,
>> > even though they build-depend on python3-psycopg.
>>
>> Nope, pgcli does not build-depend on it, rather it explicitly
>> specifies Depends: python3-psycopg3. Likewise, python-pgspecial
>> specifies the same Depends (though it also has a Build-Depends:
>> python3-psycopg3). These packages will need their dependencies
>> updating. (You might also consider making python3-psycopg Provides:
>> python3-psycopg3 and likewise for the other two binary packages for
>> bookworm.)
>>
>
>No, this is not the problem.
>I checked (rebuilt packages with) different variants - with and
>without python3-psycopg[3] as explicit dependency. In all the cases
>dependency for python3-psycopg3 comes from ${python3:Depends}
>via pgcli/debian/pgcli.substvars which contains
>python3:Depends=python3-cli-helpers, python3-click, python3-configobj,
>python3-pendulum, python3-pgspecial, python3-prompt-toolkit, python3-
>psycopg3, python3-pygments, python3-setproctitle, python3-sqlparse (>=
>0.3), python3:any.
>
>When python3-psycopg is in Depends in debian/control, it just gets
>added - so binary package's Depends contains it twice (once
>python3-psycopg3 from ${python3:Depends, once python3-psycopg
>mentioned explicitly; in case of pgcli the second one is versioned).
>
>Sample line from control file for pgcli, which contains both
>python3-psycopg and python3-psycopg3:
>Depends: python3-cli-helpers, python3-pendulum, python3-pgspecial (>=
>2), python3-pkg-resources, python3-prompt-toolkit (>= 3.0), python3-
>psycopg (>= 3.0.14), python3-sqlparse (>= 0.3), python3-tabulate,
>python3-terminaltables, python3-click, python3-configobj, python3-
>psycopg3, python3-pygments, python3-setproctitle, python3:any
>
>I tried to analyze dh_python3, but could not understand where exactly
>fills it in list of (additional) dependencies. They are generated
>somewhere between dh_python3, dhpython/pydist.py,
>and dhpython/depends.py (all files belong to package dh-python
>and are in /usr/share/dh-python).
>
>So - any tips how to fix it would be really helpful.
You'll need to add a py3dist-overrides file in /debian. The details are in the
dh-python or pybuild documentation. I don't recall where.
Scott K
