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[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I had a first glance at the osb debian 12 recipe control file and no wonder it doesn't build.
It is a lot to digest, even with meld.

Let's start with a few biggies to make life a little easier:

- All dependencies of component in one sequential line. This is no problem for the building, but for my human eye.
I have all dependencies line by line, makes maintaining my recipe easier
This makes it difficult in meld to compare as all are seen as different and for me to check is very difficult
If only 2 dependencies, it is doable, but when 10 or 20!? So, that makes comparing extra difficult
- Most almost all .install files differ but a few because of things like this:
ME:usr/lib/gambas3/gb.args*usr/share/gambas3/info/gb.args*
OSB:
usr/lib/gambas3/gb.args.component
usr/share/gambas3/info/gb.args.info
usr/share/gambas3/info/gb.args.listusr/lib/gambas3/gb.args.gambas
But I could change that on my side as well, no problem, it looks neater.
- In control file you follow same order as me up to scripter.
I then start with component gb-args in alphabetic order
You do same, but have gb-desktop inbetween scripter and gb-args
That makes comparing difficult

The a few biggies that make sure they don't build:

- remove sql2 install and remove from control (last seen on debian 10)
- remove all qt4 install and remove from control (last seen on debian 10)
- all non gambas components need 'any' instead of 'all', only pure gambas components can use 'all'
- Add dependecies for qt6:
qt6-base-dev,
qt6-webengine-dev [amd64 arm64 armhf i386],
qt6-svg-dev,
- I can not say if you meet all dependencies on gambas3 and gambas-ide as my long list has to be compared with 1 long line or several lines (always 1 long included)
Just make sure that qt4 is gone and qt6 is in
- disable qt6 and mongodb on debian 11 (remove from control + dependencies in control)
- use libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev on debian11 (no libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev on debian 11)

Then a few changes I did, to improve the recipe, I can see on first glance are following (there might be more):

- gambas3-runtime.links
- 'usr/share/gambas3/icons/application-x-gambas3.png usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/...' instead of '64x64' as the refered .png is 256x256 in size (debian doesn't like that)
- gambas3-scripter.links (same issue)
- 'usr/share/gambas3/icons/application-x-gambasscript.png usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/...' instead of '64x64'
- "usr/share/gambas3/icons/application-x-gambasserverpage.png usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/..."  instead of '64x64'
- control file addition:
- 'Vcs-Git: https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas.git' below Vcs-Browser
--> this refers autobuilders to source code at master (I think osb will use it as well)
--> Use 'Vcs-Git: https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas.git -b stable' for 3.19.6 (tags can't be used!)
- . control file change to gambas3-dev (debian policy)
Section: oldlibs -> was optional
Priority: optional -> added'This is a dummy transitional package. It can safely be removed.' -> word dummy added
- control file change to gambas3-dev (debian policy)Section: oldlibs -> was optional
Priority: optional -> added'This is a dummy transitional package. It can safely be removed.' -> word dummy added
- control file change to gambas3-dev-tools (debian policy)
WAS:
Breaks: gambas3-dev (<< 3.18.3), gambas3-devel (<< 3.18.3)
Replaces: gambas3-dev, gambas3-develConflicts: gambas3-dev (<< 3.18.3), gambas3-devel (<< 3.18.3)
ISBreaks: gambas3-dev (<< 3.15.0), gambas3-devel (<< 3.19.6)
Replaces: gambas3-dev, gambas3-devel
--> gambas3-dev last packaged on debian before 3.15.0
--> gambas3-devel is still packaged by debian (3.19.5 on debian13, 3.18.0 on debian12)
--> Breaks and Conflicts should not be used together, in this case Breaks and Replaces is recommended
- control file gambas3-ide -> dependencies added (gambas wiki recommends)

gzip,
wget
Suggests: pngquant, translate-shell
--> gzip (wget was already there) added and the 2 others are suggested upon install, so user can choose to use or not
- control file gambas3-scripter remove, Breaks already present
Conflicts: gambas3-script (<< 3.15.0)

I do know from my changelog that I:
* Added ${shlibs:Depends} as dependency to gambas3-gb-form-htmlview
* Added ${shlibs:Depends} as dependency to gambas3-gb-term
* Removed ${shlibs:Depends} as dependency from gambas3-gb-desktop * Removed ${shlibs:Depends} as dependency from gambas3-gb-mysql
I had warnings that told me of either missing or not used ${shlibs:Depends}
And my changelog was different as well.

If you make these changes you should have a buildable recipe.
Make .dsc using source with new debian recipe in and do dpkg-build -b /path and modify .dsc

If you also manage to deal with "a few biggies to make life a little easier" I can do a proper compare as there is more, like descriptions exceeding 80 characters (I made several multi lined)
But that is for later, first let's get something that builds

gbWilly

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