Package: libdebhelper-perl Version: 13.11.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
This bug report is motivated by the discussion around Bug#1025714 (https://bugs.debian.org/1025714). That bug was caused by the dh_octave_substvar script (from package dh-octave), which was calling the addsubstvar function (from library Dh_Lib) with a non-valid argument. This caused the creation of an invalid debian/*.substvars file, which triggered an error in dpkg-gencontrol and provoked an FTBFS. In that case, the problem was caused by an extraneous leading newline in the deppackage argument of addsubstvar. In the meanwhile, the issue in dh-octave has been fixed. However, Niels Thykier suggested that addsubstvar should catch and reject invalid arguments and I agree with his proposal. Best, Rafael Laboissière -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libdebhelper-perl depends on: ii perl 5.36.0-4 libdebhelper-perl recommends no packages. libdebhelper-perl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
