Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@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 (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Reply to: