Dear Neils, Dear Russ, Thank you for your comments. I have understood the situation: the substitution does not take place, and lintian is reporting the problem correctly.
This bug#621006 can be closed with "won't fix". On 08.04.2011 19:53, Russ Allbery wrote: > dpkg-genchanges only supports a substvars file for one specific purpose, > namely setting the Format field > >> Does it look like a bug for dpkg-source / dpkg-genchanges? I have found >> this bug report: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589609 >> saying that it's only dpkg-gencontrol (and not dpkg-source / >> dpkg-genchanges) that performs the substitution. > > Yup, that's correct. > >> I can agree with you. Does it mean, that it is only "Maintainer" field >> which is problematic? What if I want to substitute "Homepage" or >> "Vcs-Browser" or "Version" field? > > I'm pretty sure you can't. -- With best regards, Dmitry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
