Lintian tag for gles packages

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On 20/01/23 09:58, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> tl;dr: I'm asking for review of possible new lintian tags
> 
> Hi! As you might now Dmitry added OpenGL ES support for Qt packages:
> 
> <https://mitya57.me/weblog/2020/01/qt-opengl-es-packages-available.html>
> 
> This leads to a new situation: packages depending upon qtbase5-dev normally
> should also conditionally depend upon qtbase5-gles-dev, as per
> 
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949028>
> 
> This are normally development packages that use Qt.
> 
> There are of course some corner cases. If a package is intended to be used with
> Desktop OpenGL then depending just on qtbase5-dev is enough. The same analogy
> goes for apps using only OpenGL ES.
> 
> I think this is a nice case for a lintian tag. I've tried to create one but perl
> is definitely not my friend. So I'm planning to file a wishlist bug requesting
> for one.
> 
> So I'm proposing the following new lintian tags, for which I would like some
> review:
> 
> Tag: qtbase5-dev-dependency-but-no-gles-option
> Severity: normal
> Certainty: certain
> Check: fields/package-relations
> Info: This package depends upon qtbase5-dev but does not adds the
>  qtbase5-gles-dev alternative:
>  .
>  qtbase5-dev | qtbase5-gles-dev
>  .
>  Note that this tag can be safely overriden if the application is meant to be
>  run only in a Desktop OpenGL setup. See #949028 for more information.
> 
> Tag: qtbase5-gles-dev-dependency-but-no-desktop-option
> Severity: normal
> Certainty: certain
> Check: fields/package-relations
> Info: This package depends upon qtbase5-gles-dev but does not adds the
>  qtbase5-dev alternative:
>  .
>  qtbase5-dev | qtbase5-gles-dev
>  .
>  Note that this tag can be safely overriden if the application is meant to be
>  run only in a OpenGl ES capable setup. See #949028 for more information.

FWIW: here's a list of current possibly affected packages:

<https://perezmeyer.com.ar/ben/checkdeps.html>