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
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
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
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
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
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