Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 23:07:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input on this idea. Do you think > > >it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ? > > > > I'm uncomfortable with the idea of (ev

Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input on this idea. Do you think > >it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ? > > I'm uncomfortable with the idea of (even more?) build-time package > settings being hidden away outside of debia

Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > >Every time that debhelper needs to adjust a dependency it provides a new >substvar and the maintainer needs to put it in the right field. I was >thinking that we could avoid the second half if some specific substvars >was added at the end of every field. > >dpkg-gencontro

Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > dpkg-gencontrol could be modified to always append the value of > ${implicit:} at the end of the corresponding field. Note this would mean that for depends fields, the content of the substvar would need to start with ", ". > CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input o

Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.5 Severity: wishlist Every time that debhelper needs to adjust a dependency it provides a new substvar and the maintainer needs to put it in the right field. I was thinking that we could avoid the second half if some specific substvars was added at the end of ever