[Build-common-hackers] Bug#596713: cdbs: Please document how to override use of dh_gencontrol

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi again, Andres,

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:04:47PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
>On Monday 13 September 2010 13:32:11 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Hi Andres,
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:44:51PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
>> >chromium-browser at one point required manually adding some extra 
>> >dependencies in Depends field, so there was a need to override part 
>> >of debhelper.mk that ran dh_gencontrol. It was documented however 
>> >that in order to do this, the target 'binary-makedeb-IMPL/%' had to 
>> >be overridden.
>> >
>> >Please provide some form of documentation that explains the above 
>> >use case. I'm sure there are similar use cases too, such as 
>> >overridding dh_shlibdeps.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this!
>>
>> Documentation for CDBS certainly is lacking behind :-(
>>
>> Could you point to the specific phrase in the documentation that is 
>> wrong?
>
>Sorry. Meant to say "it was *not* documented ..." In other words, it 
>was not documented however that in order to do this, the target 
>'binary-makedeb-IMPL/%' had to be overridden.

Ah, ok.  Thanks for clarifying.


>> Depending on what exactly you wanted to do, I believe the proper 
>> approach is to set DEB_DH_SHLIBDEPS_ARGS.
>
>dpkg-shlibdeps won't help in the case where a library is dlopened, thus 
>making it necessary to manually add the dependencies in for a package.

Are you shure you don't mean dh_shlibdeps above?  I believe (but have 
not played with it) that you can spoon-feed dependencies as options to 
dpkg-shlibdeps, and thus to dh_shlibdeps as well.

Could you provide an example of the approach you believe necessary?


Kind regards,

    - Jonas

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