On 1 February 2005 at 17:50, Adam Conrad wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel said: | > | > I am not aware of packages modifying debian/control on the fly. That | > sounds a little fishy to me. | | Are you sure about that? All of my packages modify debian/control on the | fly via substvars. Sure, most just use shlibs:Depends, but others use
Sure -- I meant with direct brute force hacking of debian/control from debian/rules as you suggest here. Not sure I know an example that does that. | custom vars (like the PHP packages, using phpapi:Depends and | apache:Depends, for instance). That's what it's there for. Certainly, | some more complex packages also have substvars that are filled in on a | per-architecture basis, as we're describing here. Something like: | | if [ `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH` = "m68k" ];then \ | echo "m68k:Depends=f2c" >> debian/octave2.1-headers \ | fi | | Before you run dh_gencontrol Why don't you join the pkg-octave-devel team on alioth and test this then? Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
