Bug#589609: debian-policy: No substvars for dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.0.0
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear all,

as promised one year and a half ago
(http://lists.debian.org/20090201011604.GF13843%40kunpuu.plessy.org), here is a
patch that removes the mention of the use of substvars for dpkg-source and
dpkg-genchanges.


t a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0b3c1a1..597100e 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2190,10 +2190,9 @@ endif
 	<heading>Variable substitutions: <file>debian/substvars</file></heading>
 
 	<p>
-	  When <prgn>dpkg-gencontrol</prgn>,
-	  <prgn>dpkg-genchanges</prgn> and <prgn>dpkg-source</prgn>
-	  generate control files they perform variable substitutions
-	  on their output just before writing it.  Variable
+	  When <prgn>dpkg-gencontrol</prgn> generates <qref id="binarycontrolfiles">
+	  binary control files</qref> (<file>DEBIAN/control</file>) it performs
+	  variable substitutions on its output just before writing it.  Variable
 	  substitutions have the form <tt>${<var>variable</var>}</tt>.
 	  The optional file <file>debian/substvars</file> contains
 	  variable substitutions to be used; variables can also be set

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles