On 8 February 2012 at 08:38, Andreas Tille wrote: | On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:45:12PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > I am a little swamped with a few other things but | > | > a) a complete patch | | I could do this probably.
Good. | > b) a debian/control file using | | All control files which are currently used by Debian Med should be | working examples. I have none here so I'd still appreciate one... | > would help. We actually need $(R_Version) twice in Builds-Depends and | > Depends. This can address both uses, right? | | Build-Depends is technical impossible and does not even make sense. Huh? It's still just textual substitution. | Those Variables can simply not be used in Build-Depends because they are | just calculated in the build process. It's the same with all substvars But I agree that it happens 'too late', after the build. | used by debhelper - you will never find those in Build-Depends. It's | the other way around: You always build against the version in unstable | and this version defines what will be considered as version the binary | package will depend on. Then I am /much/ less interested in the patch as it doesn't really help with the workflow for the maintainer. We're going from a manual edit of two fields on a file to one. Still leaves us needing to open/edit the file. A tool to more easily set the Build-Depends would be of use. Dirk -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
