Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, a lot of debhelper programs for specific types of packages (python libraries, haskell libraries, etc.) add substvars of various kinds – Depends, Recommends, Suggests. It is easy to forget to add one of these to debian/control. Therefore, the maintainer should be warned about this. It seems, though, that this can not be done as a lintian check, as lintian does not see the automatically generated substvars files. Therefore, dpkg-generated should warn about unused substvars. This could be implemented in Dpkg::Substvars by remembering which vars have been get()ted after being set()ted, and returning this list upon request. Please indicate if you agree and are willing to accept a patch. Greetings, Joachim - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-2 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg 1.15.2 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-22 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.0-22 Core Perl modules Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.3-8 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.2-25 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.3-10 The GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - signature veri Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2009.05.28 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D pn debian-maintainers <none> (no description available) - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkow8icACgkQ9ijrk0dDIGyQwgCcCoJMfv5lPlCGyWYz1uWhS719 Q3kAn0m0y9DmoBXMzdc2YFi60hCZ4hLO =Sm1q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
