Hi Niels!
Several months ago you asked on IRC about extending the substvars file
format to be able to mark substvars as optional (so that they would not
warn in case they end up not being used, like how several of the built-in ones are handled). At the time I mentioned that I'd need to ponder about
it but had no energy (or motivation) do work on stuff.
I've not forgotten about it, and it has been on the back of my head,
and I've been converging on using «?=» as operator. Then rechecked the
IRC logs, and noticed that was exactly one of the formats you proposed
at the time (so either it stuck in the background and subconsciously surfaced, or I came to the same conclusion :). In any case, I've prepared
the attached patch, which I'd be happy to include for 1.21.8, in case something like this works for you?
Thanks,
Guillem
Hi Niels!
Several months ago you asked on IRC about extending the substvars file
format to be able to mark substvars as optional (so that they would not
warn in case they end up not being used, like how several of the built-in ones are handled). At the time I mentioned that I'd need to ponder about
it but had no energy (or motivation) do work on stuff.
I've not forgotten about it, and it has been on the back of my head,
and I've been converging on using «?=» as operator. Then rechecked the
IRC logs, and noticed that was exactly one of the formats you proposed
at the time (so either it stuck in the background and subconsciously surfaced, or I came to the same conclusion :). In any case, I've prepared
the attached patch, which I'd be happy to include for 1.21.8, in case something like this works for you?
Thanks,
Guillem
Possibly related. I had a look at deb-substvars(5). While it lists the debian/substvars file in the synopsis, the manpage does not actually
cover the contents/syntax of that file at all.
Instead it details how
and when substitutions are applied in the build artefacts (which is
valuable knowledge, but does not match the synopsis at all as far as I
can tell).
Hi Niels!
Several months ago you asked on IRC about extending the substvars file
format to be able to mark substvars as optional (so that they would not
warn in case they end up not being used, like how several of the built-in ones are handled). At the time I mentioned that I'd need to ponder about
it but had no energy (or motivation) do work on stuff.
I've not forgotten about it, and it has been on the back of my head,
and I've been converging on using «?=» as operator. Then rechecked the
IRC logs, and noticed that was exactly one of the formats you proposed
at the time (so either it stuck in the background and subconsciously surfaced, or I came to the same conclusion :). In any case, I've prepared
the attached patch, which I'd be happy to include for 1.21.8, in case something like this works for you?
Thanks,
Guillem
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