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authorEli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>2018-05-30 22:50:24 -0400
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2018-06-18 13:15:51 +1000
commit870d4c8fdd5e53c24c2a13cf1010b2536460fd8f (patch)
tree246932af00fc2097cf510057fd1815042c791816 /doc/PKGBUILD.5.asciidoc
parentc37a06fe1d1fbd2be73adc725323e8a4665eeb09 (diff)
libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild: permit versioned optdepends
pacman accepts these, and there is no good reason to be more restrictive ourselves; we should follow the example of "depends" here. Update the documentation to actually state that this is supported. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.asciidoc b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.asciidoc
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@@ -212,8 +212,9 @@ underscore and the architecture name e.g., 'checkdepends_x86_64=()'.
An array of packages (and accompanying reasons) that are not essential for
base functionality, but may be necessary to make full use of the contents
of this package. optdepends are currently for informational purposes only
- and are not utilized by pacman during dependency resolution. The format
- for specifying optdepends is:
+ and are not utilized by pacman during dependency resolution. Packages in
+ this list follow the same format as depends, with an optional description
+ appended. The format for specifying optdepends descriptions is:
optdepends=('python: for library bindings')
+