The dependencies of this package are not detected

[mattmassicotte]

Which package(s) are showing incorrect data?

• https://swiftpackageindex.com/kylef/JSONWebToken.swift

Please explain what data is incorrect and what you expected to see

This package actually does have dependencies, but there's Funny Business going on in the Package.swift, and I have no doubt that's the issue.

Additional context

It's definitely interesting food for thought that dependencies definitely do not have to be a constant across platforms. I would not be surprised to discover that this kind of per-platform dependency management isn't that uncommon when supporting Apple/non-Apple platforms.

I suspect you're already aware of this problem on some level, but I couldn't find an existing issue with my 10 seconds of effort.

[finestructure]

Yeah, I think this is because we run all package analysis commands on Linux. I wish package manifests weren't executable and platform dependent 😕

I'm not sure what we could do about it. We'd have to guess or somehow determine what the "main" platform is.

We could take the highest number but then we'd disadvantage a package if there's a particular, perhaps rarely used platform that requires additional dependencies.

The only correct way of doing it would be to report dependency count per platform, I guess. We could at least tooltip a per platform breakdown like we do for the Swift 6 compatibility.

I wonder though how common a problem this actually is 🤔