Automatic calculation of package dependencies from CMake

[Harald Sitter]

also see https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/issues/12#note_1011265

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hello distro folks!
>
> I've heard some mention of folks maintaining tools for determining
> package dependencies for KDE software by scanning our CMakeLists.txt
> files. This a common challenge, and one we encounter in our
> kdesrc-build/kde-builder built tools too, where currently we rely on
> hand-curated lists of packages per distro.
>
> It occurred to me that it might make sense for everyone to collaborate
> on a shared version of this kind of CMake dependency scanner tool, to
> make something more useful for everyone and with a lower maintenance
> burden for each of us.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Nate