Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

[wferi@niif.hu (Ferenc Wágner)]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
>
>> That sounds like the best option. I've pointed the dpkg maintainer at
>> your mail on IRC and asked for their thoughts on the matter.
>
> Guillem got enthusiastic about this and came up with this patch:
>
> https://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/tmp/0001-FIXME-Implement-source-stanza-sustvars.patch

There's a typo in the man page patch (standa instead of stanza).  It's
good to have this function in the core, but doesn't that exclude
backports?

> He was also talking about adding C: substvars for changelog fields.

Just out of curiosity: could you please describe a use case for this?
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Thanks,
Feri