On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:55:45AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 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
So the syntax is supported in source control files but not in the binary
ones?
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WBR, wRAR
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