[OE-core] [PATCH] package_deb: Remove version from Provides Field

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo.ribalda at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to Debian Policy Manual. Chapter 7.1
>
> All of the fields except for Provides may restrict their applicability
> to particular versions of each named package. This is done in
> parentheses after each individual package name; the parentheses should
> contain a relation from the list below followed by a version number, in
> the format described in Version, Section 5.6.12.
>
> This Fixes the following warning:
>
> root at qt5022:~# apt-get update
>
> ...
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package
> pkgconfig__pkg-config__
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda at gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass b/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
> index 2d2f3f1..905af24 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
> @@ -322,6 +322,13 @@ python do_package_deb () {
>
>          mapping_rename_hook(localdata)
>
> +        def debian_cmp_purgeversion(var):
> +            # dpkg does not allow versions on Provides.
> +            # From Debian Policy Manual, Chapter 7:
> +            # All of the fields except for Provides may restrict their applicability to particular versions of each named package.
> +            for key in var:
> +                var[key] = []
> +
>          def debian_cmp_remap(var):
>              # dpkg does not allow for '(' or ')' in a dependency name
>              # replace these instances with '__' and '__'
> @@ -359,6 +366,7 @@ python do_package_deb () {
>          debian_cmp_remap(rsuggests)
>          rprovides = bb.utils.explode_dep_versions2(localdata.getVar("RPROVIDES", True) or "")
>          debian_cmp_remap(rprovides)
> +        debian_cmp_purgeversion(rprovides)
>          rreplaces = bb.utils.explode_dep_versions2(localdata.getVar("RREPLACES", True) or "")
>          debian_cmp_remap(rreplaces)
>          rconflicts = bb.utils.explode_dep_versions2(localdata.getVar("RCONFLICTS", True) or "")
> --
> 1.9.0
>



-- 
Ricardo Ribalda