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!)?
> > We can currently easily add new fields there by using the `XC-`
> > construct in `debian/control`. Unfortunately, `dpkg-genchanges`
> > does currently not expand all substvars, limiting our abilities to
> > experiment.
>
> For experimenting purposes there's already everything you need in
> place, no need for patching, something like this would do:
>
> $ dpkg-buildpackage --changes-option="-DBuild-Env=VarA=foo VarB=bar"
This has the downside that it needs a wrapper script, or modifications
to existing ones (debuild, pbuilder, sbuild, …) but I guess we can cope
with that in a first phase.
> 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.
> So in principle I'll be tagging this wontfix, and probably closing after
> a bit, given that the original request can be already fulfilled by other
> (nicer) means.
Fair enough.
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