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Re: optional building of a package



On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:04:30AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> 
> > Just use
> > Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version})
> 
> Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual:
> 
> "The source package version (from the changelog file). This variable is
> now deprecated as its meaning is different from its function, please use
> the source:Version or binary:Version as appropriate."
> 
> The reason that this is depreciated is that it was causing packages to
                                ^
This word is deprecated in technical circles for wasting a vowel.



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