Hi! On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 23:14:13 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:32:21 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > If you forget to add a susbtvars that you should added, it is a latent RC > > bug with only a warning from dpkg-gencontrol that you might miss if you grab > > a coffee while waiting for the build to complete. If you add one that is > > not provided, you get a warning from dpkg-gencontrol that will nag you when > > you *don't* go for coffee while waiting for the build. > > I can relate a lot to this paragraph and would append: With or > without the coffee, each time I see a warning from dpkg-gencontrol I > have to think for some time about which of the two possible problems > is meant (substvar defined in d/control but not generated, or > substvar generated but missing in d/control), and that is really > annoying.
If the warnings are not clear, I'm happy to further reword them to try to make them so. I think they were previously even more confusing! If you or anyone else has wording suggestions (which are ideally still succinct) that would be great. Thanks, Guillem