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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2017-04-09 04:15:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2017-10-12 00:54:57 +0200 |
| commit | fc57bf83dcb089b1cca96f6c08b2b375cc693995 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c0b97cc61ec58355e17198bf69162240d23abda /man/dpkg-genchanges.man | |
| parent | 6f406f2dc14e9cac1ee0385e422b6fa0bf8822cc (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-fc57bf83dcb089b1cca96f6c08b2b375cc693995.tar.gz | |
dpkg-genchanges: Honor substvars in Description field
This field can have substvars applied in the binary package, so it is a
safe replacement compared to all other output fields. More so with the
newly introduced S:<source-field> style automatic substvars.
Closes: #856547
Diffstat (limited to 'man/dpkg-genchanges.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-genchanges.man | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-genchanges.man b/man/dpkg-genchanges.man index 0d7d3e240..99ec93d49 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-genchanges.man +++ b/man/dpkg-genchanges.man @@ -132,8 +132,10 @@ Read substitution variables in the default is .BR debian/substvars . No variable substitution is done on any of the fields that are output, -however the special variable \fIFormat\fR will override the field of the -same name. This option can be used multiple times to read substitution +except for the contents extracted from each binary package \fBDescription\fP +field (since dpkg 1.19.0), however the special variable \fIFormat\fR will +override the field of the same name. +This option can be used multiple times to read substitution variables from multiple files (since dpkg 1.15.6). .TP |