"Adam D. Barratt" <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> 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 (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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