Re: [PATCH] Add support for supplying more types of debian package relationships

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:01:00PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> My suggestion here is to keep that patch in your layer. You having that
> problem 20 times does not make it common, 20 independent users would ;).
> 
> So you could put that magic into a dpkg-my-layer-yocto-glue class. The
> deps in Isar are a pain, because we are dealing with two worlds. I
> personally do not think that "pretending this away" is a good idea.
> 
> If you actually have configure + compile tasks in your dpkg-raw you are
> on the wrong track and should stop pretending its yocto! Or at least
> make sure all that gets done in buildchroot. If you want please explain
> what you are doing, like Jan asked before.

People use this feature and ask for various corner cases. If we can cover those
till proper dependency support is implemented (which would probably require
modifying bitbake or developing a different tool), I'd like to apply the patch
because it helps users today.

Konstantinos, do you see a possibility to document this and provide a test
case?

With kind regards,
Baurzhan.