Le Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:15:15AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Note that this decision has been taken because: > - dpkg-source has never used debian/substvars as input and did nothing > unless you gave the -T option
> I hope my answer clarifies the situation. Given that it has not been used > in 14 years, and that we had no wishlist bug in that direction, it seems > pretty clear that it's useless and that there are other better ways to > achieve similar functionnality. Le Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:10:18PM +0000, Roger Leigh a écrit : > > The .dsc file is exactly where the information is read from. See > fetch_source_files() in Sbuild/Build.pm. This is for installing > and removing build-dependencies and build-conflicts, respectively. > Note that dpkg-buildpackage and other tools read debian/control > to check that the build-deps are satisfied in addition. Thank you all for your answers, from my biologist point of view, I find interesting to observe how an unused function progressively becomes impracticable as the whole system evolves without pressure to stay compatible with it :) Helper tools such as mk-build-dep have not been mentionned in this thread, but would also break with packages containing a substvar in debian/control. I can try prepare a patch for the Policy if you are interested. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org