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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{deps_cell} =} fix_depends (@var{depends})
## Undocumented internal function.
## @end deftypefn

## Make sure the depends field is of the right format.
## This function returns a cell of structures with the following fields:
##   package, version, operator
function deps_cell = fix_depends (depends)
  deps = strtrim (strsplit (tolower (depends), ","));
  deps_cell = cell (1, length (deps));

  ## For each dependency.
  for i = 1:length (deps)
    dep = deps{i};
    lpar = find (dep == "(");
    rpar = find (dep == ")");
    ## Does the dependency specify a version
    ## Example: package(>= version).
    if (length (lpar) == 1 && length (rpar) == 1)
      package = tolower (strtrim (dep(1:lpar-1)));
      sub = dep(lpar(1)+1:rpar(1)-1);
      parts = strsplit (sub, " ", true);
      if (length (parts) != 2)
        error ("incorrect syntax for dependency `%s' in the DESCRIPTION file\n",
               dep);
      endif
      operator = parts{1};
      if (! any (strcmp (operator, {">", ">=", "<=", "<", "=="})))
        error ("unsupported operator: %s", operator);
      endif
      version  = fix_version (parts{2});

  ## If no version is specified for the dependency
  ## we say that the version should be greater than
  ## or equal to "0.0.0".
  else
    package = tolower (strtrim (dep));
    operator = ">=";
    version  = "0.0.0";
  endif
  deps_cell{i} = struct ("package", package, "operator", operator,
                         "version", version);
  endfor
endfunction