Bug#487850: dh-make-perl: allow adding, not overwriting dependencies with --depends and friends

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Andreas Beckmann, Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:29:47PM +0200 |=-
> what do you think about having an option to add packages to the
> dependency list without overwriting the defaults and generated deps?
> I'd suggest allowing the arguments to --depends etc. to be prefixed with
> '+' which means appending, not overwriting. E.g.
> 
>     dh-make-perl ... --depends "+ foo, bar (>> 0), baz (== 42)"
> 
> Would result in
> 
>     Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0), ${misc:Depends}, libfo-o-bar-perl, foo,
>      bar (>> 0), baz (== 42)

I think this should be the default mode and the current --depends 
behaviour should be moved to --force-depends.

OTOH, I don't use --depends at all and always look in the generated 
debian/control and adjust it to fit the situation...

What do others say?

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