On 2018-02-26 20:58, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > + * Use debian/substvars for substitutions by dpkg-genchanges (dpkg > 1.19) > + (375.82-7). > > What's the effect of not having support for that? (as 1.19 is newer > than stretch's dpkg.)
It's a no-op on stretch - debian/substvars is created but not used - dpkg-genchanges does not know about it - and the .changes file contains unsubstituted substvars (in the synopsis) - as it always has been. (The R³:no setting is an even noisier no-op). Andreas