On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Only debian/control needs to be substituted at build time, the rest can (and
> should ?) be handled dynamically at build time. I do so usually at start of
> configure time, but it doesn't always work. For example, i had to do it for a
> .dpatch in ocaml, and thus it had to come before the patch application.
Ok, you're right. Having to do it once for debian/control is just easier
to do all .in substitutions ad that time.
But I agree it would be better to do all other substitutions during
package build.
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