Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> That sounds like the best option. I've pointed the dpkg maintainer at >> your mail on IRC and asked for their thoughts on the matter. > > Guillem got enthusiastic about this and came up with this patch: > > https://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/tmp/0001-FIXME-Implement-source-stanza-sustvars.patch
There's a typo in the man page patch (standa instead of stanza). It's good to have this function in the core, but doesn't that exclude backports? > He was also talking about adding C: substvars for changelog fields. Just out of curiosity: could you please describe a use case for this? -- Thanks, Feri