fix: isolate files shared with upstream in supplemental package #25
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| Suggests: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr | ||
| Provides: sway |
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In my opinion this is still required. Many packages have a hard dependency on sway. Without this, the sway session will possibly lose out on much of the sway ecosystem.
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Just realised that the supplemental package replaces sway.
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Right, the user MUST have EITHER sway OR sway-regolith-supplemental installed. Or this is my intention. LMK if this seems off.
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| sway (>= 1.9) | sway-regolith-supplemental, |
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Does the order have an effect? Ideally, sway-regolith-supplimental should be installed in the absence of both packages. Can we ensure that somehow??
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Good question. I'm not aware of a way to specify a ranked dependency decl like that.. I'll try an experiement. I'll switch the order and (see if possible to) elevate the priority of our package to see if that effects the package solver. I happen to see this behavior on my dev machine, so the test is pretty simple:
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mailcap suckless-tools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sway wmenu
The following packages have been kept back:
gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0-dev libgirepository-2.0-0 libglib2.0-0t64 libglib2.0-0t64:i386 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
sway-regolith
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The sway package's priority (at least in Debian) is optional.
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Indeed one of the two seems to have caused the desired change:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mailcap suckless-tools sway-backgrounds
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sway-regolith-supplemental
The following packages have been kept back:
gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0-dev libgirepository-2.0-0 libglib2.0-0t64 libglib2.0-0t64:i386 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
sway-regolith
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
I will back out the Priority change as that's the most "special" and see what shakes out.
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Removing Priority caused sway to return to the top pick. Will keep the Priority. Will test on a vanilla noble system (using quickemu)
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Seeing inconsistent results between my dev environment and a clean install of noble :/ . Another approach might be to add a Recommends on sway-regolith-supplemental.
… recommends for internal package to see if impacts resolver
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Latest commit produces consistent happy-path behavior on my dev environment (upgrade) and a fresh instance (both running 24.04 amd64). Not sure if the additional meta packages are worth keeping around. PR ready for review @SoumyaRanjanPatnaik |
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nevermind, the following test failed:
expected: apt does not install supplemental package |
…s to Suggests to see if that causes resolver to choose not to uninstall sway when installing session package
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See #21 (comment)