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Re: ocaml 3.09.0 and word from the RMs ...



On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:26 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:11:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >    there's no need to avoid the comma between the two subst var,
> > >    dpkg-gencontrol is able to add/remove it where needed.
> > This comes from way back when we did the the bestprovides thingy. Notice that
> > bestprovides provides the leading ',' or not, so it should be ok like this.
> 
> There's no need for it, you can do ${substvar}, ${substvar}, ${substvar}
> and dpkg-gencontrol will do the right thing (TM) no metter what the
> values of the various substvars are.

I have to say I'm very happy to see this wart is going to 
be removed. However I'm not clear how the autobuilder will
be triggered into rebuilding a source that hasn't changed,
how does that work?


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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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