[OE-core] [PATCH] insane: check if the recipe incorrectly uses DEPENDS_${PN}

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Aug 1 15:09:44 UTC 2019


Some people mistakenly use DEPENDS_${PN} and wonder why the dependencies don't
work. Check for this and tell the user to use DEPENDS.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
---
 meta/classes/insane.bbclass | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
index 891d3a84218..35c4fdb4913 100644
--- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
@@ -1237,6 +1237,11 @@ python () {
     if prog.search(pn):
         package_qa_handle_error("uppercase-pn", 'PN: %s is upper case, this can result in unexpected behavior.' % pn, d)
 
+    # Some people mistakenly use DEPENDS_${PN} instead of DEPENDS and wonder
+    # why it doesn't work.
+    if (d.getVar(d.expand('DEPENDS_${PN}'))):
+        package_qa_handle_error("pkgvarcheck", "recipe uses DEPENDS_${PN}, should use DEPENDS", d)
+
     issues = []
     if (d.getVar('PACKAGES') or "").split():
         for dep in (d.getVar('QADEPENDS') or "").split():
-- 
2.20.1



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