Re: no substvars for ssh 1.20

[Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com>]

Guy Maor wrote:
> The substvars file is used by dpkg-gencontrol to do variable
> substition.  dpkg-shlibdeps is the only script which edits it.
> 
> Some more complicated packages (usually ones with shared libs)
> sometimes need to determine things for the control file dynamically,
> and they'll usually do that in the rules file, and let dpkg-gencontrol
> insert the right entries in the control file.

So why, then, would debian/rules look for it but not call dpkg-shlibdeps to create it?  More impotantly, is there a down-side to my creating a zero-length file?


Stephen
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