conandeps: dedicated "level" column for the level of indirection

Show the hop count from the consumer as its own numeric column in both the
text and the HTML dependency table instead of folding it into the kind
cell as "indirect (N)".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EYNdaGDrpaqDyT8QtrTQbM

README.md

@@ -92,12 +92,12 @@ profile: arch=x86_64, compiler=gcc, compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11, compiler.versio
 
 Dependencies (4) and binary availability
 
-package     kind          ctx   Release  Debug  RelWithDebInfo
+package     kind      level  ctx   Release  Debug  RelWithDebInfo
---------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
-MyDepA/1.0  direct        host  knor     knor   knor
+MyDepA/1.0  direct    1      host  knor     knor   knor
-MyDepB/1.0  direct        host  knor     knor   knor
+MyDepB/1.0  direct    1      host  knor     knor   knor
-boost/1.8   indirect (2)  host  knor     knor   knor
+boost/1.8   indirect  2      host  knor     knor   knor
-Zigma/1.0   indirect (2)  host  knor     knor   MISSING
+Zigma/1.0   indirect  2      host  knor     knor   MISSING
 
 Missing binaries (1)
 
@@ -128,9 +128,10 @@ produces colour codes unless you pass `--color always`. The HTML report uses
 the same colour coding.
 
 Reading the table: rows are sorted with direct dependencies first
-(alphabetically), then indirect ones by increasing level of indirection –
+(alphabetically), then indirect ones by increasing level of indirection. The
-`indirect (2)` is required by a direct dependency, `indirect (3)` by one of
+`level` column is the number of hops from your conanfile: 1 is direct, 2 is
-those, and so on (shortest path counts).
+required by a direct dependency, 3 by one of those, and so on (shortest path
+counts). The HTML report has the same column.
 
 
 * `knor` (a remote name) – the remote has a binary for the package_id your

conandeps.py

@@ -521,8 +521,7 @@ def _override_kind(o: Override) -> str:
 
 
 def _kind(dep: Dep) -> str:
-    """'direct', or 'indirect (N)' where N is the number of hops from the consumer."""
+    return "direct" if dep.direct else "indirect"
-    return "direct" if dep.direct else "indirect (%d)" % dep.depth
 
 
 def render_text(report: Report, color: bool = False) -> str:
@@ -538,11 +537,11 @@ def render_text(report: Report, color: bool = False) -> str:
     w(pal.bold("Dependencies (%d) and binary availability" % len(report.deps)))
     w("")
     rows = [
-        [dep.ref, _kind(dep), dep.context]
+        [dep.ref, _kind(dep), str(dep.depth), dep.context]
         + [_cell(*dep.binaries[bt], pal) for bt in report.build_types]
         for dep in report.deps.values()
     ]
-    out.extend(_table(["package", "kind", "ctx"] + list(report.build_types), rows, pal))
+    out.extend(_table(["package", "kind", "level", "ctx"] + list(report.build_types), rows, pal))
     w("")
 
     # ---- missing binaries ------------------------------------------------
@@ -641,14 +640,14 @@ def render_html(report: Report) -> str:
     w("<h2>Dependencies (%d) and binary availability</h2>" % len(report.deps))
     rows = []
     for dep in report.deps.values():
-        row = [e(dep.ref), e(_kind(dep)), e(dep.context)]
+        row = [e(dep.ref), e(_kind(dep)), str(dep.depth), e(dep.context)]
         for bt in report.build_types:
             status, pid, remote = dep.binaries[bt]
             cls = {"Remote": "ok", "Missing": "missing", "CacheOnly": "cacheonly"}.get(status, "na")
             text = e(_cell(status, pid, remote, _Palette(False)))
             row.append('<span class="%s" title="package_id %s">%s</span>' % (cls, e(pid), text))
         rows.append(row)
-    w(_html_table(["package", "kind", "context"] + list(report.build_types), rows))
+    w(_html_table(["package", "kind", "level", "context"] + list(report.build_types), rows))
 
     # ---- missing binaries ------------------------------------------------
     problems = report.problems()

tests/test_conandeps.py

@@ -243,8 +243,11 @@ def test_sorted_by_level_of_indirection(report):
         ("libdeep/1.0", 3),
     ]
     text = conandeps.render_text(report)
-    assert re.search(r"libbar/1\.1\s+indirect \(2\)", text)
+    assert re.search(r"libbar/1\.1\s+indirect\s+2\s+host", text)
-    assert re.search(r"libdeep/1\.0\s+indirect \(3\)", text)
+    assert re.search(r"libdeep/1\.0\s+indirect\s+3\s+host", text)
+    page = conandeps.render_html(report)
+    assert "<th>level</th>" in page
+    assert "<td>libdeep/1.0</td><td>indirect</td><td>3</td><td>host</td>" in page
 
 
 def test_missing_binaries(report):