Re: [PATCH] dpkg-raw: empty "Depends:" line is not allowed in .deb

[Christian Storm <christian.storm@siemens.com>]

> Apt-gat fails to install packages if the control-file contains a
> "Depends:"-line without any packages listed.
> 
>   E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> 
> So append that line to the control-file only if DEBIAN_DEPENDS was set
> in the recipe. The user could still specify i.e. " " or anything
> invalid, we do not check that. But now our default works.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
> Reported-by: Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de>
> ---
>  meta/classes/dpkg-raw.bbclass | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/dpkg-raw.bbclass b/meta/classes/dpkg-raw.bbclass
> index af62be4..1435e10 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/dpkg-raw.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/dpkg-raw.bbclass
> @@ -26,10 +26,15 @@ do_deb_package_prepare() {
>  		Section: misc
>  		Priority: optional
>  		Maintainer: ${MAINTAINER}
> -		Depends: `echo ${DEBIAN_DEPENDS} | tr '[:blank:]' ','`

Just as a side note: This doesn't work for versioned dependencies
that should result in a line like, e.g.,
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
in DEBIAN/control.


Besten Gru�,
   Christian

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Dr. Christian Storm
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