From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:01:00 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Deprecate support of substvars in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges
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Deprecate support of substvars in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d26526f..4aa496c2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-01-27  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+	* README.feature-removal-schedule: Deprecate support of substvars
+	in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges.
+
 2008-01-27  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
 
 	* scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/SymbolFile.pm: Replace has_new_libs(),
diff --git a/README.feature-removal-schedule b/README.feature-removal-schedule
index c71e1c16..f3b6cfc9 100644
--- a/README.feature-removal-schedule
+++ b/README.feature-removal-schedule
@@ -63,3 +63,11 @@ Warning: none
 Why:
  This option has been superseded by -tudeb.
 
+What: substvars support in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges
+Status: deprecated
+When: lenny+1
+Warning: program
+Why:
+ substvars do not make sense during generation of .dsc and .changes files.
+ This also means that it won't be possible anymore to override the Format
+ field output by dpkg-genchanges.
diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl b/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl
index 3071d242..7dada21a 100755
--- a/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ while (@ARGV) {
 	$since= $POSTMATCH;
     } elsif (m/^-T/) {
 	$varlistfile= $POSTMATCH;
+	warning(_g("substvars support is deprecated (see README.feature-removal-schedule)"));
     } elsif (m/^-m/) {
 	$forcemaint= $POSTMATCH;
     } elsif (m/^-e/) {
diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-source.pl b/scripts/dpkg-source.pl
index 48f12bab..9cba941e 100755
--- a/scripts/dpkg-source.pl
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-source.pl
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ while (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ m/^-/) {
         $substvars->set($1, $POSTMATCH);
     } elsif (m/^-T/) {
 	$varlistfile = $POSTMATCH;
+	warning(_g("substvars support is deprecated (see README.feature-removal-schedule)"));
     } elsif (m/^-(h|-help)$/) {
         &usage; exit(0);
     } elsif (m/^--version$/) {