"Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]> writes: > I'd guess Charles meant the following addition to > README.feature-removal-schedule, from the dpkg source package: > > What: substvars support in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges > Status: deprecated > When: lenny+1 > Warning: program > Why: > substvars do not make sense during generation of .dsc and .changes files. > This also means that it won't be possible anymore to override the Format > field output by dpkg-genchanges.
Ah! I didn't know about that. That makes a lot of sense, though, given that the build doesn't look at the *.dsc file anyway. I don't think I've ever seen a package that used substvars there, except for attempts to use it for Build-Depends. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
