On 11-12-08 at 03:02pm, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Gergely Nagy <algernon@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.
Well, in a way this one is too: compat level 9 is not yet finalized, as
I understand it. Just prematurely gotten into use due to its upcoming
ability to handle multiarch.
- Jonas
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