Re: [Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-27 Thread Niels Thykier
tho...@goirand.fr: [...] Hi Niels, Thanks a lot for your work on this, I very much agreed with the premiss that subst vars were a thing easy to fall into traps. It is a very welcomed improvement to automate them and avoid mistakes. Is there a place where you wrote some kind of doc about

Re: [Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-25 Thread thomas
Sent from Workspace ONE Boxer On Mar 25, 2024 7:44 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Niels Thykier: > A follow up on this: > > * The proposal is now implemented in debhelper compat 14 (as of version > 13.15+) and debputy (0.1.21+). > > * The `debputy` migration tool will flag any

Re: [Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: Hi It seems the discussion on this topic has settled, so I am now doing a summary of the discussion as I understand it.  * Generally, the original proposal seems to have been received    favorably at a conceptual level. [...] A follow up on this: * The proposal is now im

[Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi It seems the discussion on this topic has settled, so I am now doing a summary of the discussion as I understand it. * Generally, the original proposal seems to have been received favorably at a conceptual level. * Several people requested the scope to be expanded to extra fields.