[Distutils] stdeb vs dependencies?

Andrew Straw strawman at astraw.com
Fri Feb 5 18:16:21 CET 2010


K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> Andrew Straw wrote:
>>> 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
>>   
> rich at irish> dpkg -s debhelper | grep Version
> Version: 7.4.11ubuntu1
> rich at irish> dpkg -s python-support | grep Version
> Version: 1.0.4ubuntu1

With the same versions of debhelper and python-support, I'm not getting
those warnings with stdeb 0.5.1. Can you post the stdeb generated
debian/control file?

Thanks,
Andrew


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