On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:51:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:55:45AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>
> >> No idea about apt, but dpkg's maintainer told me (shortly after having
> >> filed this bug) that dpkg supported it basically since ever; quoting
> >> him:
> >>
> >> <guillem> mapreri: the trailing comma syntax *must* be supported,
> >> otherwise things like «foo, ${substvar}» with an empty
> >> substvar would break havoc
> >> <guillem> mapreri: well dpkg does not accept it but the perl code does
> >> and remove it before generating the DEBIAN/control files so
> >> it's all good
> >> <guillem> mapreri: I'll clarify the deb-src-control man page
>
> > So the syntax is supported in source control files but not in the binary
> > ones?
Maybe a better way to say that is that it is only supported in
debian/control, and not in files generated from it, including .dsc.
We already had this discussion in another bug report.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
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