Re: [PATCH v2] debianize: add support for DEBIAN_BUILT_USING

[Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>]

v2 was applied to next, thanks.

Best regards,
Zhihang

On 10/10/25 12:43, srinuvasan.a via isar-users wrote:
> From: srinuvasan<srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
>
> This field is particularly important when creating a derivative of an upstream package (f.e: bmap-tools),
> as SBOM tools (such as the proposed debsbom) can detect it and record the original package as a dependency
>
> Typically, this field declares that a binary package incorporates parts from another source package or binary
> With this update, Built-Using can be set directly in debian/control using the DEBIAN_BUILT_USING variable
>
> Examples:
>
> A package using the source code from the gcc-4.6-source package:
> Built-Using: gcc-4.6 (= 4.6.0-11)
>
> A package including binaries from grub2 and loadlin:
> Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
>
> Recipes can now simply define DEBIAN_BUILT_USING to populate this field automatically
>
> Note: Several upstream packages define this field, for example shim-signed, fwupd, and grub-efi-amd64-bin.
>
> Signed-off-by: srinuvasan<srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
> ---
>   doc/user_manual.md             | 3 +++
>   meta/classes/debianize.bbclass | 3 +++
>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/user_manual.md b/doc/user_manual.md
> index 67f91973..4b5e0843 100644
> --- a/doc/user_manual.md
> +++ b/doc/user_manual.md
> @@ -1006,6 +1006,9 @@ Other (optional) customization variables include:
>    - `DEBIAN_PROVIDES` - declare a virtual package to satisfy dependencies
>    - `DEBIAN_REPLACES` - to replace a package with another
>    - `DEBIAN_BREAKS` - Packages which break other packages
> + - `DEBIAN_BUILT_USING` - Used when a binary package includes parts of other source packages, f.e: by statically linking their libraries or embedding their
> +    code or data during the build.
> +    E.x: Built-Using: <name> (= <version>)
>   
>   ### Prebuilt .deb packages from somewhere
>   
> diff --git a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> index 4989c601..9197bc25 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ DEBIAN_PROVIDES ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_REPLACES ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_CONFLICTS ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_BREAKS ??= ""
> +DEBIAN_BUILT_USING ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_MULTI_ARCH ??= "no"
>   DEBIAN_COMPAT ??= "10"
>   DEBIAN_CHANGELOG_TIMESTAMP ??= "3600"
> @@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ deb_create_control[vardeps] += "DEBIANIZE_BUILD_DEPENDS \
>                                   DEBIAN_PROVIDES \
>                                   DEBIAN_REPLACES \
>                                   DEBIAN_BREAKS \
> +                                DEBIAN_BUILT_USING \
>                                   DEBIAN_CONFLICTS"
>   deb_create_control() {
>   	cat << EOF > ${S}/debian/control
> @@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ Depends: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_DEPENDS')}
>   Provides: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_PROVIDES')}
>   Replaces: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_REPLACES')}
>   Breaks: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_BREAKS')}
> +Built-Using: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_BUILT_USING')}
>   Conflicts: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_CONFLICTS')}
>   Multi-Arch: ${DEBIAN_MULTI_ARCH}
>   Description: ${DESCRIPTION}

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