On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 01:29:48PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> It would be nice to warn about present but unused or used but unknown
> dpkg-gencontrol substitution variables. Here is an example of these:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size&arch=all&ver=1.0.0-3&stamp=1469703308&raw=0
>
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size: unknown substitution variable ${python-Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size: unused substitution variable ${python:Versions}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size: unused substitution variable ${python:Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size: unused substitution variable ${python:Provides}
I disagree: "unused substitution variable" often contains stuff that is
deprecated (e.g. ${python:Provides} and ${python:Versions} in your
example) that the maintainer is better off not using it.
I second warning on "unknown substitution variable" though.
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