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On Mar 25, 2024 7:44 AM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > > Niels Thykier: > A follow up on this: > > * The proposal is now implemented in debhelper compat 14 (as of version > 13.15+) and debputy (0.1.21+). > > * The `debputy` migration tool will flag any obsolete substvars that > are 1:1 with what `debputy` would have applied for you. No tool for > debhelper-based packages exist at this time. > > * Lintian is not updated yet and will still complain about missing > relationship substvars. I have filed #1067653 to have that changed. > > I expect this to be final on this topic for this round. :) > > Best regards, > Niels Hi Niels, Thanks a lot for your work on this, I very much agreed with the premiss that subst vars were a thing easy to fall into traps. It is a very welcomed improvement to automate them and avoid mistakes. Is there a place where you wrote some kind of doc about how to use debputy or debhelper compat 14? Does one need to add debputy as build-depends, and that is it? Pointers to URLs welcome. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
