Hello, On Wed 16 Jul 2025 at 10:30am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > >> Hello Xiyue, >> >> This is great work. Thank you for the respin. I'd just like to ask a >> few questions about it. >> >> - What is the emacs-provided-package-versions variable for? I don't >> think it gets set anywhere? >> > > It's used later in the `emacs-provided-package-versions` function, which > will populate it with a mapping of package name to version. This will > then be used later to actually generate the substvars values. I don't think it needs to be a defvar. It can be a lexical variable inside that function. > It also gets regenerated with `debian/rules debian-sync': notice that > the build rule is marked `.PHONY'. I think this should be run on each > update according to d/README.source. Maybe this could be added to > dh_auto_clean in case someone (like me) forgets to run it by hand? Why not generate it during the build? That's how other substvars work. -- Sean Whitton
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