[Gambas-user] Latest ppa: bad package dependencies

[bb]

On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 11:49 +0930, bb wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 03:38 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> > Le 25/06/2021 à 03:34, bb a écrit :
> > > There are two issues here.
> > > 1) The dependencies for the target package are including
> > > dependencies
> > > on libraries that are only defined for the development work. IOW
> > > a
> > > library listed in the Project Properties "Libraries" tab is being
> > > included in the dependencies for the Ubuntu package. The library
> > > is
> > > NOT
> > > included in the Project Properties "Information" tab.
> > > 2) The dependency is misnamed. It looks for a package named with
> > > the
> > > FULL vendor name rather than the vendor prefix, when both are
> > > defined
> > > in the packaging wizard.
> > > I'll leave this post at this length ATM.
> > > 
> > > bruce
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't understand what you are talking about.
> > 
> I am talking about packaging a project for installation on a Ubuntu
> based system.
> 
> We have a library that provides us with some testing and debugging
> methods, some "code quality" checking methods and some environment
> checking methods. It is only necessary when running the target
> project
> within the IDE. It is not needed in the installed project.
> 
> In the packaging wizard I have :
> On page 1
> "Add vendor prefix or name to package names" checked
> "Vendor name" set to "paddys-hill"
> "Vendor prefix" set to "ph"
> On page 5
> "Minimum Gambas version" checked and set to 3.14
> There are no other dependencies set.
> 
> I create the package successfully as "gambas3-ph-internalsrt_0.0.31-
> 0ubuntu1_all.deb" etc, but when I try to install it with "GDebi
> Packager Installer" it fails with 
> 
> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: paddys-hill-qatest (>=0.90.0)"
> 
> Now firstly qatest is a library, there is no package for it. It only
> lives as ~/.local/share/gambas3/lib/qatest.gambas 
> 
> So why is the packager including a dependency on a library in the
> first
> place? Secondly, disregarding the fact that it does, why is it
> looking
> for a package prefixed with the full vendor name instead of the
> vendor
> prefix?
> 
> regards
> bruce
> 
p.s. The ph-internalsrt_0.0.30-0ubuntu1.dsc file contains the following
line:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), gambas3-dev (>= 3.14), gambas3-dev (<<
3.99.0), paddys-hill-qatest (>= 0.90.0), paddys-hill-qatest (<< 1.0.90)