On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:28:37AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I didn't even know this syntax was allowed, and now that I do I'd love
> to use it.
Happy to have confirmation that some clarity is needed :)
> Do you know how long this has worked, in apt and dpkg?
No idea about apt, but dpkg's maintainer told me (shortly after having
filed this bug) that dpkg supported it basically since ever; quoting
him:
<guillem> mapreri: the trailing comma syntax *must* be supported,
otherwise things like «foo, ${substvar}» with an empty
substvar would break havoc
<guillem> mapreri: well dpkg does not accept it but the perl code does
and remove it before generating the DEBIAN/control files so
it's all good
<guillem> mapreri: I'll clarify the deb-src-control man page
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