On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 13:25 +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > There is another option. Manpage deb-substvars(5) mentions > ${F:fieldname} variable, but it works only for a limited set of fields > (like Source, Architecture, Section). For rest of fields, it expands > to empty text. Maybe this limitation can be lifted instead, and > dh-text will be unnecessary, since ${F:X-Description} would be used > > instead?
That sounds like the best option. I've pointed the dpkg maintainer at your mail on IRC and asked for their thoughts on the matter. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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