Dependencies order

[elboulangero]

dh-make-golang sorts ${misc:Depends} first, while running plain old wrap-and-sort put it at the end.

Seems like golang is right if we consider that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Printable_characters (dollar comes first).

OTOH I don't think that we can change how wrap-and-sort works... or maybe we can?

[anthonyfok]

Good question!

/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort is a Python script, and Python's built-in sorted() function puts the $ dollar first too.

>>> sorted(["golang-github-google-wire-dev", "${misc:Depends}"])
['${misc:Depends}', 'golang-github-google-wire-dev']

It turns out that wrap-and-sort placing ${xxxx:yyyyyyy} at the end is a deliberate behavioural change in 2013:

wrap-and-sort: Put special entries (variables and placeholders) at the end of the list.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/commit/a48b4e6c846e301fa12da2c111cc51cedc0604e3

And cme libconfig-model-dpkg-perl followed suit in Dec 2017:

sort dependencies like wrap-and-sort
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libconfig-model-dpkg-perl/commit/a19752b315ec9287229bc9cc6da7aed6ae698a1b

So I guess dh-make-golang can follow suit too!

[elboulangero]

Thanks for your feedback, see #123 then