Hi again, >> At the beginning I thought that skipping the depandancy needed for build-time >> tests was a logical extension, but now we all agree that it is useless. For >> the >> factorisation of the package list between Depends and Build-Depends, I will >> solve this in my packages with a dpkg substvar, >> such as $(depends:libfoo-bar-perl} for Foo::Bar. It seems that it is >> trivial to pass through dh_gencontrol.
>Substvars don't work for Build-Depends, I'm afraid. Well, according to the Policy sections 5.2 and 4.10, it (should ? must?) work. In reality, it is an endangered mechanism, as it was deprecated in January 2008. Would it be possible to un-deprecate it? If there is some programmation needed, would a patch be welcome? Then a second problem is that, whatever dpkg-source does, there is always a parser that is ran before and that will complain against the substvar. But it should be easy to desensitize it to substvars, which would restore compliance with our Policy. Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
