Hi!

I just started using stdeb but have run into a problem which I can't solve.

Just for background, so you know at what level to aim replies, I'm a long-time programmer, over 30 years in fact. I make much of what I do available to others but I've only just got around to packaging, so I know absolutely nothing about how to package code (but I'm learning!).

I'm using stdeb 0.8.2 installed via pypi because the Ubuntu repos are so hopelessly out of date.

I'm building a package for python3 only and uploading to an Ubuntu ppa which I have done but with the following problems:

Here's my stdeb.cfg file:

[DEFAULT] Depends: libav-tools (>= 6:11), lsdvd (>= 0.17), mplayer2 (>= 2.0), python3- pyqt4 (>= 4.11), python3-pyudev (>= 0.16) XS-Python-Version: >= 3.4 MIME-Desktop-Files: share/ravenc.desktop Suite: utopic Section: universe/video

Now here is the control file in the source package that is produced (minus the package description, slightly redacted):

Source: ravenc Maintainer: Geoff Clements <e-mail address> Section: universe/video Priority: optional Build-Depends: python3-setuptools, python3-all, debhelper (>= 7.4.3) Standards-Version: 3.9.1 X-Python-Version: >= 3.4

Package: python3-ravenc Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}

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The problem here is that the dependencies have not been carried across to the control file.

In addition, when I try to build a binary package I get this warning:

dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package python3-ravenc: unknown substitution variable ${python3:Depends}

This also appears in the build log if a submit the source packages to Ubuntu to include in my ppa.