(Linux) Package-specific depends broken, breaking Trays & Notifications

[sidneys]

• Version: 15.1.1
• Target: Linux

In earlier releases (up to 11.5.1), specifying an Array within build.target.depends allowed to specify target-specific package dependencies.

With the newly introduced package.json validation not allowing build.target.depends, (e.g. build.pacman.depends, build.rpm.depends) and throwing additionalProperties error, this has become impossible:

Raw validation errors: [
  {
    "keyword": "additionalProperties",
    "dataPath": "",
    "schemaPath": "#/additionalProperties",
    "params": {
      "additionalProperty": "pacman"
    },
    "message": "should NOT have additional properties"
  },
  {
    "keyword": "additionalProperties",
    "dataPath": "",
    "schemaPath": "#/additionalProperties",
    "params": {
      "additionalProperty": "rpm"
    },
    "message": "should NOT have additional properties"
  }
]

This feature is crucial for apps using Tray Menus or Notifications, requiring libappindicator and libnotify packages, but which are named slightly different on every target:

• deb
  correctly includes libnotify4, libappindicator1
• pacman
  misses libappindicator-gtk2, libappindicator-gtk3, libappindicator-sharp, libnotify
• rpm
  misses libappindicator, libnotify

With the newly introduced package.json validation not allowing for custom depends for these formats, its not possible anymore to install them, rendering the installer useless.

Can anyone help?