I am creating a deb package which depends on a long list of packages, all of them starting with aisoy-. When installing with apt-get, I can install them all using apt-get install aisoy-* but if I write that in the control file for the deb package, It fails with dpkg-gencontrol: failure: error detected when analyzing «Depends» field.
My control file is very simple:
Source: aisoy-raspberry
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: [omitted]
Build-Depends:
Homepage: [omitted]
Package: aisoy-raspberry
Architecture: any
Depends: [other packages that work well], aisoy-*
Description: All packages needed to install Aisoy in Raspberry Pi
Is there a way of including all aisoy-* packages at once?
It is not possible as you have to be explicit. If you look at the Debian packaging library code, the regular expression for a dependency is quite simple.
It only matches against a package name containing: [a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9+.-]*