Re: dpkg-gencontrol breakage?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm seeing this in a package I'm an uploader for:
> 
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${F:Version}
> 
> These are, to my knowledge, legitimate fields, no?  Is this known
> breakage?  I looked at the bug reports for debhelper and dpkg, and I
> don't see anything about this - am I just looking in the wrong place?

Afaik that happens when there are unset, e.g. no libs to depend on
whrere found.

MfG
        Goswin