Re: [Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars
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On Mar 25, 2024 7:44 AM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
>
> Niels Thykier:
> A follow up on this:
>
> * The proposal is now implemented in debhelper compat 14 (as of version
> 13.15+) and debputy (0.1.21+).
>
> * The `debputy` migration tool will flag any obsolete substvars that
> are 1:1 with what `debputy` would have applied for you. No tool for
> debhelper-based packages exist at this time.
>
> * Lintian is not updated yet and will still complain about missing
> relationship substvars. I have filed #1067653 to have that changed.
>
> I expect this to be final on this topic for this round. :)
>
> Best regards,
> Niels
Hi Niels,
Thanks a lot for your work on this, I very much agreed with the premiss that subst vars were a thing easy to fall into traps. It is a very welcomed improvement to automate them and avoid mistakes.
Is there a place where you wrote some kind of doc about how to use debputy or debhelper compat 14? Does one need to add debputy as build-depends, and that is it? Pointers to URLs welcome.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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