Guillem Jover: > Hi Niels! > > Several months ago you asked on IRC about extending the substvars file > format to be able to mark substvars as optional (so that they would not > warn in case they end up not being used, like how several of the built-in > ones are handled). At the time I mentioned that I'd need to ponder about > it but had no energy (or motivation) do work on stuff. > > I've not forgotten about it, and it has been on the back of my head, > and I've been converging on using «?=» as operator. Then rechecked the > IRC logs, and noticed that was exactly one of the formats you proposed > at the time (so either it stuck in the background and subconsciously > surfaced, or I came to the same conclusion :). In any case, I've prepared > the attached patch, which I'd be happy to include for 1.21.8, in case > something like this works for you? > > Thanks, > Guillem
Hi Guillem, Thanks for coming back to me on this. :) I would definitely still love to have this feature, so please do go ahead with it if you are okay with it. :) I will look into making debhelper support/understand the new syntax soon. Thanks, ~Niels
