Hmm this seems to conflate various things. As anyone who has had to make code interact with GnuPG will attest, I very much agree its interfaces are not ideal to put it mildly. I'm pretty excited, though, about things…
Either here or I guess a mail to the debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org mailing list would do, whatever is most convenient. :)
There is already «apt-cache depends <package>» or even «apt-cache depends --recurse <package>». Perhaps those are missing something?
I assume you mean maintainer scripts here. If so we are already going in that direction: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeclarativePackaging For interactivity that should in principle be a solved problem with…
I agree this is currently a problem, the solutions are currently either too heavy weight, or too limited ( https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup). What I've been wanting to do is to add a better alternative to…
This has been part of the dpkg roadmap for some time now (https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap). And something I'm slowly but progressively moving towards. But TBH it has been low priority. Knowing of projects…
Please check https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalification, https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/EssentialOnDiet and https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/ImportantField. We should discuss some of this at some…
Hmm this seems to conflate various things. As anyone who has had to make code interact with GnuPG will attest, I very much agree its interfaces are not ideal to put it mildly. I'm pretty excited, though, about things…
Either here or I guess a mail to the debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org mailing list would do, whatever is most convenient. :)
There is already «apt-cache depends <package>» or even «apt-cache depends --recurse <package>». Perhaps those are missing something?
I assume you mean maintainer scripts here. If so we are already going in that direction: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeclarativePackaging For interactivity that should in principle be a solved problem with…
I agree this is currently a problem, the solutions are currently either too heavy weight, or too limited ( https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup). What I've been wanting to do is to add a better alternative to…
This has been part of the dpkg roadmap for some time now (https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap). And something I'm slowly but progressively moving towards. But TBH it has been low priority. Knowing of projects…
Please check https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalification, https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/EssentialOnDiet and https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/ImportantField. We should discuss some of this at some…