Misc debian issues

[geiseri]

I found a few issues when trying to package a flutter application on ubuntu.

The most troublesome one is the ability to use alternative dependencies. Ex packageA | packageB should add a dependency so that at least one of either packageA or packageB is installed. I am sure this is some strange subprocess/codec issue but it gets added to the control as packageAöpackageB I have my locale set to C.UTF-8 if that helps narrow it down.

Currently you need to set installed_size in the make_config.yaml for debian packages. While not a huge issue it does confuse dpkg. I just set the size to roughly what the flutter build bundle --target-platform linux-x64 && du -sh build/linux/x64/release/bundle/ output is. Not every time, but like I said it confuses apt.

Lastly is a more subtle issue that I ran into. Since the package doesn't use debhelper you don't get ${shlibs:Depends} and ${misc:Depends} to resolve shared libraries. This can cause shared libraries to not get added to dependencies.

I am pretty sure that all of these would be easy to solve if you add debhelper to the Build-Depends. You would also need something like this:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
        dh $@

in the deban/rules file.

[geiseri]

Sorry the | issue was due to the locale on our CI. You can ignore that one.