On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 05:55:04PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package python3-gpg: substitution variable ${python3:Versions} unused, but is defined
>
> Thinking i knew what i was doing, i added ${python3:Versions} to the
> Depends: line of python3-gpg in debian/control.
>
> It turns out i actually have no idea where the ${python3:Versions}
> substvar *should* be used in debian/control, but it should certainly
> never be used in Depends:.
That's the historical remains of a previous implementation of something
I don't even recall anymore. It's meant to contain the list of python
versions the package is built for.
If you notice, some package have a `XB-Python-Version` field, and that's
the field ${Python3:Versions} is supposed to go into.
> I'm assuming that this substvar came from dh_python3 from the dh-python
> package, so i'm marking this bug as affecting dh-python.
I'm not sure how the "affect" is meaningful or indeed useful here, but
whatever :)
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