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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-genchanges.man | 6 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl | 1 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 862aff766..984d655e1 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ dpkg (1.19.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * Add support for a new Build-Kernel-Version field in .buildinfo files, that can be emitted with a new dpkg-genbuildinfo --always-include-kernel option. Closes: #873937 + * Make dpkg-genchanges honor substvars in .changes Description field. + Closes: #856547 * Perl modules: - Switch from Dpkg::Util to List::Util, now that the module in the new required Perl contains the needed functions. 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 diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl b/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl index e8c86fe09..8d56bbdf0 100755 --- a/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl +++ b/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ foreach my $pkg ($control->get_packages()) { push @f, @{$p2f{$p}} if defined $p2f{$p}; # Add description of all binary packages + $d = $substvars->substvars($d); my $desc = encode_utf8(sprintf('%-10s - %-.65s', $p, decode_utf8($d))); $desc .= " ($pkg_type)" if $pkg_type ne 'deb'; push @descriptions, $desc; |