Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

Thanks a lot Russ. I found my problem happens to be more than that, I.e., I should deal with "empty-binary-package" first. Once I got it properly build I see perl shows up on the Depends line. Depends: perl, dnsmasq, curl Sorry about the noise. Thanks again. On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:29:52

Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

T o n g writes: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:26:10 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: >> If you think ${perl:Depends} should have a value then there may be >> something else going on; what does dbab end up depending on once it's >> built? (dpkg-deb -I dbab*deb will tell you.) >> >> (Note that IO::Socket::I

Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:26:10 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: >> My packages gives this warning: >> >> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package dbab: unknown >> substitution variable ${perl:Depends} >> >> I am packaging Perl stuff, and I do use IO::Socket::INET in my code. > If you > thin

Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

Hi, On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:24:59 + (UTC), T o n g wrote: > My packages gives this warning: > > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package dbab: unknown > substitution variable ${perl:Depends} > > I am packaging Perl stuff, and I do use IO::Socket::INET in my code: > > https://gi

Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

Hi, My packages gives this warning: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package dbab: unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends} I am packaging Perl stuff, and I do use IO::Socket::INET in my code: https://github.com/suntong001/dbab/blob/master/src/bin/dbab-svr In https://lists.d