On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - It is not standardized: substvars are set via custom commands in > debian/rules and there are thousands ways of setting them. When > opening a random source package, one would not know where exactly to > look for the common part of source package description. Nor an > automated tool can extract it.
You completely misparsed my answer/suggestion. My suggestion is to follow your advice, add a Description field in the source part of debian/control, let it flow in the .dsc and Sources _AND_ modify dpkg-gencontrol so that you can use new default substitution variables to reuse the source description elsewhere. There would be no need for any custom command in debian/rules. > To fix that, it seems to me that the most reasonable solution advanced > in the thread is to add a proper "Description" field to source package > stanzas. Then, in addition, we can setup an automatic substvar, whose > content is the source description, that can then be used in package > description stanzas to interpolate the source description. That's precisely what I have been suggesting. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
