Dmitry Katsubo <dm...@mail.ru> writes: > Jakub says that "use substitution variables in the source is always a > packaging bug", however the documentation concerning "debian/control" > file keeps silence concerning the fields which are not allowed to be > substituted:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-substvars The problem isn't the field, it's that substitutions only work in binary packages, not source packages or *.changes files: When dpkg-gencontrol generates binary package control files (DEBIAN/control), it performs variable substitutions on its output just before writing it. The first part there is significant. Nothing else does variable substitution so far as I know. > I have explicitly passed the substvars file to use for dpkg-source / > dpkg-genchanges like that: > debuild -sa -us -uc --changes-option="-Tdebian/substvars" > but it does not help: dpkg-genchanges only supports a substvars file for one specific purpose, namely setting the Format field: -Tsubstvarsfile Read substitution variables in substvarsfile; the default is debian/substvars. No variable substitution is done on any of the fields that are output, however the special variable Format will override the field of the same name. This option can be used multiple times to read substitution variables from multiple files. > Does it look like a bug for dpkg-source / dpkg-genchanges? I have found > this bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589609 > saying that it's only dpkg-gencontrol (and not dpkg-source / > dpkg-genchanges) that performs the substitution. Yup, that's correct. > But still "-T" option is there... I've got a bad feeling :) I'm not sure why dpkg-source accepts it; I don't think it uses it. > I can agree with you. Does it mean, that it is only "Maintainer" field > which is problematic? What if I want to substitute "Homepage" or > "Vcs-Browser" or "Version" field? I'm pretty sure you can't. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
