Re: [MBF] Obsoleting Source-Version substvar
On 10/07/16 02:16, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to obsolete the ${Source-Version} substvar, which has very
> misleading semantics, and has been deprecated since dpkg 1.13.19 in
> 2006-05-04. This currently emits warnings from various dpkg-dev
> scripts and from lintian.
>
> <https://lintian.debian.org/tags/substvar-source-version-is-deprecated.html>
>
> I'm attaching the prospective dd-list, and the template bug report. I'd
> like do the MBF in 1 or 2 weeks, and turn the warnings into errors in
> the first dpkg release after 1 or 2 months from now. I'm easy if people
> would like more or less time?
Sounds good to me.
Cheers,
Emilio
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