Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> Okay, check out this freakiness...
>
> Here's the substvars file:
>
> linear-algebra=atlas2
> linear-algebra-dev=atlas2-dev
>
> I've attached the control file.  So why do I get the following warning:
>
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable
> ${linear-algebra}
>
> and it leaves a blank in the petsc-2.0.29 Depends?  But
> ${linear-algebra-dev} in petsc-2.0.29-dev Depends works just fine!!
>
> What's going on here?

D'oh!  Silly me.  Finally got around to trying DH_VERBOSE=1, and discovered debian/substvars only
applies to the first binary package in control, debian/<packagename>.substvars to the others.

No bug, just my mistake.

Zeen,

-Adam P.

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