Re: replacing Source-Version substvar

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:56:30PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > I want to get rid of lintian's "substvar-source-version-is-deprecated"
> > warning in my packages, which currently have this:
> >   Package: libsyslog-ocaml-dev
> >   Depends: ocaml-nox-${F:OCamlABI}, libsyslog-ocaml (= ${Source-Version})
> >   ...
> >
> > Should this now be ${source:Version} or ${binary:Version} -- and why?
> 
> The simple rule is: 
> 
> if libsyslog-ocaml is a `Architecture: any' package use ${binary:Version} 
> if libsyslog-ocaml is a `Architecture: all' package use ${source:Version}

Thanks!

> The above example is not correct since, there is no libsyslog-ocaml binary 
> package, but you will get the idea.

(The version about to be uploaded has one, because the latest bugfix
needed a C stub and therefore a separate package for the runtime DLL.)

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