[Distutils] stdeb vs dependencies?

K. Richard Pixley rich at noir.com
Tue Feb 9 02:24:01 CET 2010


Andrew Straw wrote:
> 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?
Source: ui
Maintainer: Rich Pixley <rich.pixley at palm.com>
Section: python
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: python-setuptools (>= 0.6b3), debhelper (>= 7), 
python-support (>= 0.8.4)
Standards-Version: 3.7.2

Package: python-ui
Architecture: all
Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-pybabel (>= 0.9.4), 
python-zope.sqlalchemy (>= 0.4), python-repoze.tm2 (>= 1.0a4)
XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
Provides: ${python:Provides}
Description: UNKNOWN


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