On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:00 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > In reality, it is an endangered mechanism, as it was deprecated in > > January 2008. > > I'm not sure what you're referring to here.
I'd guess Charles meant the following addition to README.feature-removal-schedule, from the dpkg source package: What: substvars support in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges Status: deprecated When: lenny+1 Warning: program Why: substvars do not make sense during generation of .dsc and .changes files. This also means that it won't be possible anymore to override the Format field output by dpkg-genchanges. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
