Bug#884754: bls: detect dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unused/unknown substitution variable
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 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.
In general, it is a bug to not use set substitution variables. If
there are cases where they shouldn't be used, then the tools that
generate them need to be fixed. It would be fine for bls to ignore the
specific ones that are deprecated, if there is some reason that the
deprecated variables can't be just removed yet.
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bye,
pabs
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