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Package: dh-exec
Version: 0.23
Severity: wishlist
dear maintainer,
In some packages of mine I have a 'p' variable that contains the name of
the package that may be interesting in that context.
In one of those cases, I'd like to export that variable and use it in my
*.install and *.links files, but turns out I need to use the curly
brackets with ${p}. I'd like to use one-char variables without curly
brackets, the same way it can be done in makefiles (that's the reason
I'm using one-char variables really, to avoid the brackets).
To see the reason of this request you can look at the scribus and
scribus-ng (and outside of debian scribus-trunk) packages, that are
different branches of the same program, with identical build system, but
to be coinstallable needs to install in different directories. Yet, I'd
like to share the packaging as much as possible, to the point to be able
to just copy nearly everything.
Thanks for your software! :)
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Control: tag -1 wontfix
Hi!
Sorry for the late response, took a while to get back on track and have
some Debian-time. I have considered the request to make dh-exec treat
one-char variables without curly brackets, but eventually came to the
conclusion that it would be more confusing than what its worth.
You see, make is confusing too, in this regard:
,----
| p=foo
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| test:
| @echo $pbar
`----
This will output "foobar", even though "$pbar" really looks like a
variable. I would like to avoid unnecessary ambiguity in dh-exec, and
allowing one-char variables without curly brackets would introduce some.
For this reason, while the change would not be hard, I will not be
adding it. For the sake of clarity, please use ${p} - it may be longer,
but it is clearer. I do not think repeating make's mistakes would be a
good idea.
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