Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: minor Tags: patch Policy 4.10 refers to dpkg-source(1) for details of variable substitutions. With the version of dpkg-dev in unstable, that information has moved to its own man page, deb-substvars(5).
Patch attached. Cheers, Ian. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- no debconf information
diff -Naur debian-policy-3.7.3.0.old/policy.sgml debian-policy-3.7.3.0/policy.sgml --- debian-policy-3.7.3.0.old/policy.sgml 2007-12-03 06:53:35.000000000 +0000 +++ debian-policy-3.7.3.0/policy.sgml 2008-04-12 16:28:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -2012,7 +2012,7 @@ </p> <p> - See <manref name="dpkg-source" section="1"> for full + See <manref name="deb-substvars" section="5"> for full details about source variable substitutions, including the format of <file>debian/substvars</file>.</p> </sect>