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authorGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2015-07-31 17:40:10 +0200
committerGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2015-08-03 01:19:46 +0200
commit2b5045c492fd4f1f0f6f3114e7b444014fe446c4 (patch)
treeb0621f3fb8d3e883c835e4de36caedb3456c6531
parent14dff6e0c34443bcc0be402627549d891df4813b (diff)
downloaddpkg-2b5045c492fd4f1f0f6f3114e7b444014fe446c4.tar.gz
dpkg-source: Add an optional essential=yes key/value to Package-List
This makes this information available in the Sources package files, so that when bootstrapping a new architecture all Essential:yes packages are known in advance. Prompted-by: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog3
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/dpkg-source.pl4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1432a063c..c27d8dab3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ dpkg (1.18.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Add an extra level of escaping for double $(evals) in architecture.mk
and buildflags.mk, so that the variables are computed lazily again.
Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.2. Closes: #793330
+ * Add binary packages Essential information to Package-List field in the
+ .dsc file, as optional essential=yes entries. This allows precomputing
+ the pseudo-essential set before starting an architecture bootstrap.
* Perl modules:
- Remove non-functional timezone name support from
Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian.
diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-source.pl b/scripts/dpkg-source.pl
index e0b8b8ef4..9aeec135d 100755
--- a/scripts/dpkg-source.pl
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-source.pl
@@ -297,6 +297,10 @@ if ($options{opmode} =~ /^(build|print-format|(before|after)-build|commit)$/) {
$pkg_summary .= " profile=$profile";
}
+ if (defined $pkg->{'Essential'} and $pkg->{'Essential'} eq 'yes') {
+ $pkg_summary .= ' essential=yes';
+ }
+
push @pkglist, $pkg_summary;
push @binarypackages, $p;
foreach (keys %{$pkg}) {