From 0e822793d6ac3cea9dc627b9c1bf2599da3325c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krisjanis Veinbahs <krisjanis.veinbahs@ui.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 11:26:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add dependency array support

---
 node-deb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/node-deb b/node-deb
index 92025ae..d4523bd 100755
--- a/node-deb
+++ b/node-deb
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ log_debug "The package maintainer has been set to: $package_maintainer"
 
 # Set the package dependencies
 if [ -z "$package_dependencies" ]; then
-  package_dependencies=$(jq -r '.node_deb.dependencies' package.json)
+  package_dependencies=$(jq -r '.node_deb.dependencies | if type == "string" then . else . | join(", ") end' package.json)
   default_package_dependencies="nodejs, sudo"
   if [[ "$package_dependencies" != 'null' ]]; then
     default_package_dependencies="${default_package_dependencies}, "