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authorPatrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>2024-02-21 22:52:55 (EST)
committer Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>2024-02-21 22:57:54 (EST)
commite7250eaeebaca1448ed2acc95c949cc47719bc2c (patch)
tree4f5588d2cbd1fe2fd18bf4d937c4b6e1620936a0
parent00995f225cf49fa4a4894fcfbafe2502ec40e475 (diff)
TODO: Transitional package field
Also, specify arch- and plat-indep Description field in SPF 2.0.
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@@ -4,9 +4,33 @@ Future Tasks
Functional Changes
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+ * Support a field for annotating transitional packages, to help notify
+ maintainers when their source packages depend on development packages for
+ old library SONAME versions.
+ - Add optional `Deprecated: yes[ <replacement-pkg>]` binary package field to
+ SPF 2.0. Note that this does not replace package relationship fields like
+ `Depends`.
+ - (Debian uses `Section: oldlibs` for this, but ProteanOS uses `Section` to
+ separate packages into smaller indices that not all systems use, so we
+ shouldn't just dump all transitional packages into one big section. Also,
+ ProteanOS uses `Section` to determine whether to architecture-qualify
+ names of multiarch coinstallable packages.)
+ - Add `Deprecated` to `lib/package/2.sh` `_OB_BINARY_FIELDS_OPTIONAL_2`.
+ - Add an option to opkbuild to disable build dependency deprecation
+ failures. Maybe replace `-D`. Set an environment variable for
+ ob-checkbuilddeps.
+ - Run `opkg info` instead of `opkg status` in ob-checkbuilddeps
+ `check_dep()`. If a `Deprecated` field exists, call `ob_error()` with the
+ name of the replacement package (if any). If build dependency deprecation
+ failures are enabled, exit with an error status.
+ - Make opkbuild always run ob-checkbuilddeps regardless of `-d` option and
+ only exit with an error status if ob-checkbuilddeps fails and `-d` is
+ specified.
* Make binary package `Description` fields architecture- and platform-
independent (so a packages index Web site can show one description for a
binary package for all its architectures and platforms).
+ - Specify in SPF 2.0 #substvars-defined that `Host-Arch` and `Host-Plat`
+ substitution variables shall not be set for `Description` fields.
- `ob_set_source_substvar()` needs a third optional (for API compatibility)
`archplat_dep` parameter (default `false`) that, if `true`, causes
variable to be stored in a separate array.