Re: [PATCH] debianize: introduce DEBIAN_PROVIDES and DEBIAN_REPLACES

[Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>]

On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 15:11 +0530, srinuvasan.a@siemens.com wrote:
> From: Srinuvasan A <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
> 
> Allow setting the Provides and Replaces field for auto generated
> control files,
> with this changes now user can configure the provides and replaces in
> the debian/control file.
> 
> Recipes can simply setting the Provides and Replaces field now by
> defining the
> DEBIAN_PROVIDES and DEBIAN_REPLACES variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinuvasan A <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
> ---
>  doc/user_manual.md             | 4 ++++
>  meta/classes/debianize.bbclass | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/user_manual.md b/doc/user_manual.md
> index 747b5ffe..bc730243 100644
> --- a/doc/user_manual.md
> +++ b/doc/user_manual.md
> @@ -936,6 +936,10 @@ For the variables please have a look at the
> previous example, the following new
>  Have a look at the `example-raw` recipe to get an idea how the
> `dpkg-raw` class can be used to customize your image.
>  Note that the package will be build using the whole debian package
> workflow, so your package will be checked by many debhelper scripts.
> If those helpers point out quality issues it might be a good idea to
> fix them. But `example-raw` also shows how rules can still be
> violated.
>  
> +Other (optional) customization variables include:
> + - `DEBIAN_PROVIDES` - declare a virtual package to satisfy
> dependencies
> + - `DEBIAN_REPLACES` - to replace a package with another
> +
>  ### Prebuilt .deb packages from somewhere
>  
>  In some cases you might find yourself having a `.deb` that someone
> else built,
> diff --git a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> index 7de98673..adbb5da4 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ CHANGELOG_V ??= "${PV}"
>  DPKG_ARCH ??= "any"
>  DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS ??= ""
>  DEBIAN_DEPENDS ??= ""
> +DEBIAN_PROVIDES ??= ""
> +DEBIAN_REPLACES ??= ""
>  DEBIAN_CONFLICTS ??= ""
>  DEBIAN_MULTI_ARCH ??= "no"
>  DEBIAN_COMPAT ??= "10"
> @@ -74,6 +76,8 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=
> ${DEBIAN_COMPAT}), ${DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS}
>  Package: ${BPN}
>  Architecture: ${DPKG_ARCH}
>  Depends: ${DEBIAN_DEPENDS}
> +Provides: ${DEBIAN_PROVIDES}
> +Replaces: ${DEBIAN_REPLACES}
>  Conflicts: ${DEBIAN_CONFLICTS}
>  Multi-Arch: ${DEBIAN_MULTI_ARCH}
>  Description: ${DESCRIPTION}

Applied to next, thanks.