Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> dpkg-gencontrol could be modified to always append the value of
> ${implicit:<fieldname>} at the end of the corresponding field.

Note this would mean that for depends fields, the content of the
substvar would need to start with ", ".

> CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input on this idea. Do you think
> it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ?

It seems like a good idea, it would reduce clutter if misc:Depends did
not need to be manually listed. I don't know if debhelper's perl:Depends
and python:Depends could be sanely made implicit.

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