[Distutils] stdeb vs dependencies?

[Andrew Straw]

K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> Andrew Straw wrote:
>>> What I'm seeing with stdeb-0.5.1 is that no dependencies are declared
>>> at all, but instead, I'm seeing unresolved macro references to
>>> ${python:Depends}.
>>>     
>> What exactly is the error? Can you post the traceback or other error?
>> python-support should resolve this reference at .deb build time.
> I trimmed a bit of cruft from the middle.
I take it you're talking about this?

> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${python:Provides}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${python:Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${python:Provides}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${python:Versions}


What's the output of

dpkg -s python-support | grep Version

and

dpkg -s debhelper | grep Version