Bug#238156: dpkg-dev: dpkg-gencontrol ignore Depends: field

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:37:43PM +0100, Cl?ment 'nodens' Hermann wrote:

> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.10.20
> Severity: important
> 
> dpkg-gencontrol ignore Depends field in debian/control if a variable
> such as ${shlibs:Depends} or ${perl:Depends} is used. Everything is fine
> when specifying package names without variables.
> 
> exemple : 
> if I have 
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, iptables
> in debian/control, dpkg-gencontrol -O does not show any Depends: field.
> 
> but if I put :
> Depends: iptables
> it works.

Works fine here:

mizar:[/tmp/hello-2.1.1] grep Depends debian/control 
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, foo
mizar:[/tmp/hello-2.1.1] dpkg-gencontrol -O |grep Depends
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
Depends: foo

Perhaps you can show how to reproduce the problem exactly.

-- 
 - mdz