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



Hi!

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 17:03:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 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

Seconded.

regards,
guillem

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