Gergely Nagy <alger...@madhouse-project.org> writes:
> Apart from the reason explained in debhelper's git history, I can offer
> another: variable substitution would be an incompatible change, as it's
> perfectly legit to have '/usr/bin/${oh hai I broke your system}' or
> '/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}' files.
> So, we'd need a flag to turn on variable substitution. Perhaps a compat
> level would be enough - I don't know, nor do I care.
This would be a similar change to the change of supporting wildcards in
all debhelper files, which was done with a compat level change.
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