On Fri, 04 Apr 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Um, well, sorry. The use case is that some of the substitution variables are > manually maintained, some are created during the build by the package, and > some are created by debhelper. It's not easy to get all these sources into > one file.
Why? It's a matter of "grep" and "cat" and always use debian/<package>.substvars. For which package such a feature would have been useful to you? Or are you arguing that we should have dpkg-substvars to update more easily a substvars file? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
