Re: [PATCH] debianize: introduce DEBIAN_SECTION

[Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>]

Applied to next, thanks.

Best regards,
Zhihang

On 10/16/25 11:43, srinuvasan.a via isar-users wrote:
> From: srinuvasan <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
>
> Add support for setting the Section field in auto-generated control files.
> This allows users to specify a custom section for their packages, making
> it easier to categorize and identify them within the Debian archive.
>
> By default, the section is set to "misc".
>
> Also update the section for the isar-exclude-docs package as a demonstration.
>
> Example:
>    DEBIAN_SECTION = "ui"     # For UI-related packages
>    DEBIAN_SECTION = "utils"  # For miscellaneous utilities
>
> Signed-off-by: srinuvasan <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
> ---
>   doc/user_manual.md                                            | 1 +
>   meta/classes/debianize.bbclass                                | 4 +++-
>   .../isar-exclude-docs/isar-exclude-docs_0.2.2.bb              | 2 ++
>   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/user_manual.md b/doc/user_manual.md
> index 6778d15c..4d81370e 100644
> --- a/doc/user_manual.md
> +++ b/doc/user_manual.md
> @@ -1006,6 +1006,7 @@ 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_SECTION` - Specifies the category under which the package is classified
>   
>   ### Prebuilt .deb packages from somewhere
>   
> diff --git a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> index 4989c601..dff7110b 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>   CHANGELOG_V ??= "${PV}"
>   DPKG_ARCH ??= "any"
>   DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS ??= ""
> +DEBIAN_SECTION ??= "misc"
>   DEBIAN_DEPENDS ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_PROVIDES ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_REPLACES ??= ""
> @@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ EOF
>   
>   
>   deb_create_control[vardeps] += "DEBIANIZE_BUILD_DEPENDS \
> +                                DEBIAN_SECTION \
>                                   DEBIAN_DEPENDS \
>                                   DEBIAN_PROVIDES \
>                                   DEBIAN_REPLACES \
> @@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ deb_create_control[vardeps] += "DEBIANIZE_BUILD_DEPENDS \
>   deb_create_control() {
>   	cat << EOF > ${S}/debian/control
>   Source: ${BPN}
> -Section: misc
> +Section: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIAN_SECTION')}
>   Priority: optional
>   Standards-Version: 3.9.6
>   Maintainer: ${MAINTAINER}
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/isar-exclude-docs_0.2.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/isar-exclude-docs_0.2.2.bb
> index 2b844bed..acca67c8 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/isar-exclude-docs_0.2.2.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/isar-exclude-docs_0.2.2.bb
> @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ inherit dpkg-raw
>   DESCRIPTION = "Configuration to exclude most documentation"
>   MAINTAINER = "isar-users <isar-users@googlegroups.com>"
>   
> +DEBIAN_SECTION = "utils"
> +
>   SRC_URI = "file://${BPN} \
>   	   file://postinst"
>   

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