Hi! On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 12:07:23 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Guillem Jover: > > Sure, there's also another bug report requesting builtin support for > > this, the problem is about possible privacy issue, like leaks of user > > information. > > Are you talking about #138409 (opened 15 Mar 2002!)?
Yes (and only 11 years, not too bad :). > > Expanding substvars “might” possibly only make sense for unknown fields, > > the rest of the known fields should be deterministic from the source > > package itself. And there's multiple fields that must not use them > > at all, this includes the Changes field for example, or we'd get > > expansions on changelog entries that mention substvars. > > I had not thought of the issue related to changelog entries. I think it > would be worth documenting it, maybe close to the “Note: no substitution > of variables” comment. Sure, I'll clarify such comments. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
