Dirk Eddelbuettel said: > > I am not aware of packages modifying debian/control on the fly. That > sounds a little fishy to me.
Are you sure about that? All of my packages modify debian/control on the fly via substvars. Sure, most just use shlibs:Depends, but others use custom vars (like the PHP packages, using phpapi:Depends and apache:Depends, for instance). That's what it's there for. Certainly, some more complex packages also have substvars that are filled in on a per-architecture basis, as we're describing here. Something like: if [ `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH` = "m68k" ];then \ echo "m68k:Depends=f2c" >> debian/octave2.1-headers \ fi Before you run dh_gencontrol ... Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
