Packaging develop branch for arch & derivatives.

[ahmubashshir]

I'm planning to package obk this way,

• openbangla-keyboard-git
  • depends: qt5-base openbangla-im-git
• ibus-openbangla-git
  • depends: openbangla-keyboard-git
  • provides: openbangla-im-git
• fcitx5-openbangla-git
  • depends: openbangla-keyboard-git
  • provides: openbangla-im-git

is this ok?
@mominul @Adyel @bdeshi

[mominul]

As we will be having two main packages ibus-openbangla and fcitx5-openbangla in Ubuntu/Debian repositories, so I think having ibus-openbangla-git and fcitx5-openbangla-git would be the most preferable as the user-facing packages. So I don't think we'll need openbangla-keyboard-git anymore.

But it seems you have proposed to have 4 packages, can you elaborate? You had proposed to me that having 3 packages would be enough in our initial discussion.

[ahmubashshir]

the 4th one is virtual, it provides a common name to share between packages.
if user wants to openbangla-im, pacman will ask which variant of obk they want to use, fcitx5 or ibus?
And as openbangla-keyboard-git depends on openbangla-im, pacman will ask the same question if they install openbangla-keyboard-git.

OTOH, if they directly install the variants ({ibus,fcitx5}-openbangla-git) pacman will pull openbangla-keyboard-git automatically w/o asking anything. the previous answer has an asciinema record showing how pacman resolves this.

[ahmubashshir]

What about the common files then, like keyboard layout files and dictionaries? Cause if both ibus-openbangla and fcitx5-openbangla provides them, they'll conflict. A friend of mine uses both kde and xfce in same box, fcitx5 in kde, ibus in xfce. openbangla-keyboard-git provides common files: /usr/share/openbangla-keyboard/data/ /usr/share/openbangla-keyboard/icons/ /usr/share/openbangla-keyboard/layouts/ ibus-openbangla-git will provide only directly ibus dependent files fcitx5-openbangla-git will provide only directly fcitx5 dependent files In ubuntu/debian term, openbangla-keyboard-git is equivalent toopenbangla-common In a nutshell. I'm proposing to provide 3 packages. openbangla-keyboard-git: provides common files and depends on a virtual(ie. nonexistent) package named `openbangla-im` (it can also be named openbangla-input-method). As openbangla-im is nonexistent, pacman will search which packages provides `openbangla-im` and ask user to choose package they want to install ibus-openbangla: provides ibus input method, this package provides openbangla-im. also depends on openbangla-keyboard-git for common files. fcitx5-openbangla: provides fcitx5 input method, this package provides openbangla-im. also depends on openbangla-keyboard-git for common files. packaging in action: <https://asciinema.org/a/423148> Mubashshir

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[ahmubashshir]

btw... all 3 packages are built into my local repo