Changeset 90414 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian

Timestamp:

Jul 29, 2021 5:45:26 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

146012

Message:

debian/control, src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian/control: Remove dependency on python (intentionally left out!), and add comments making clear that this shouldn't re-added even if it fixes a warning.

Location:

trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian

Files:

• control (modified) (1 diff)
• rules (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian/control

@@ -19 +19 @@
 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, psmisc, adduser,
   ${shlibs:Depends},
-  ${misc:Depends},
-  ${python:Depends}
+  ${misc:Depends}
+# Do not add python dependencies to the package, because otherwise the user
+# will always get a complete python install (and currently it is often a
+# python2 install which some users really don't want). Leave the decision
+# to users who actually want the VirtualBox API binding for Python.
+#  ${python:Depends}
 Recommends: ${alsa}, ${pulse}, ${sdlttf}, kmod | kldutils | module-init-tools,
   linux-headers-generic | linux-headers-generic-pae | linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-2.6-686 | linux-headers-2.6-amd64 | linux-headers,

trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian/rules

@@ -354 +354 @@
         dh_installdeb
         dh_perl
-        # for some reason, the Qt libraries couldn't be found on newer releases (e.g. Ubuntu hardy)
+        # For some reason, the Qt libraries couldn't be found on newer releases (e.g. Ubuntu hardy).
+        # Python is deliberately not listed as a dependency (see also comment in the "control" file.
+        # It is expected that dh_gencontrol shows a warning "substitution variable ${python:Versions}
+        # used, but is not defined" because of this.
         LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(prefix)/usr/lib/virtualbox dh_shlibdeps --exclude=VBoxPython
         dh_gencontrol -- \