please avoid dpkg_late_eval in debian/rules

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Hi,

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Le mercredi 31 juillet 2024, 07:02:40 CEST nicolas.boulenguez at free.fr a écrit :
> Hello.
> 
> Several KDE packages expand the dpkg_late_eval macro defined in
> /usr/share/dpkg/*.mk.
> 
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=dpkg_late_eval+file%3Adebian%2Frules&page=5&perpkg=1
> 
> This macro was intended for private use only, has never been
> documented, and may soon be removed.  Please consider the following
> changes or a variant.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
> 
>   include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk
> 
> -AbiVirtualPackageVersion = $(call 
> dpkg_late_eval,AbiVirtualPackageVersion,echo '${DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM}' | 
> sed -e 's/\.[0-9]\+$$//')
> +AbiVirtualPackageVersion = $(basename $(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM))
>   pkgs_lib = $(filter-out %-dev %-dbg %-bin %-data,$(filter lib%,$(shell 
> dh_listpackages)))
> 
>   %:

Thanks Nicolas.

@Patrick I can see this only in the PIM stack for what I have cloned on my machine.

Maybe you could address that in a future PIM upload ?


Best,
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Aurélien