Bug#813766: dh-make-perl: manually specified --depends

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:03:53 +1100, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> but dh-make-perl did its dependencies guessing etc, resulting in
> libyaml-perl among the dependencies.  I hoped only my manual --depends
> would be used.

From the changelog for 0.49 (November 2008):

  * Make --depends and similar options to add packages to dependencies instead
    of replacing the detected dependecy lists.
    Closes: #487850 -- allow adding, not overwriting dependencies with
                       --depends and friends

So this was a deliberate decision at that time after people were
bitten by having the dependencies overwritten.

The "--force-depends" mentioned in the old bug doesn't seem to have
materialized.

From here on I see two paths:
- the documentation is not really clear on if deps are added or if
  they replace the found ones;
- something like --force-depends and friends could be added as new
  options.


Cheers,
gregor

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