Unheeded warnings from build tools (was: Building package,)

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:03:40 -0500, Elías A. M. wrote:
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> 
> You can safely ignore this warning.

Luca Bruno <lethalman88@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:03:40PM -0500, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?El=EDas_A._M._ wrote:
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> 
> I think you can ignore this one.

I think it'sa bad situation when a build tool emits a warning that is
routinely ignored; it commonly leads to masking real problems.

The correct solution is for the warning to go away. Either this *is*
something that needs attention, or it is not. In the former case, what
is the problem and what is the solution? In the latter case, why is
the warning there at all?

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