This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said:
> This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said:
> > This one time, at band camp, Goswin von Brederlow said:
> > > 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.
OK, sorry, I think I misparsed what was happening - I thought that the
above errors were stopping the build, but it's a later error, where the
value of ${F:Version} is needed. That's easy enough to work around, but
I'm still not sure why ${F:Version} is no longer valid.
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