  Re: Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end
of every field  RaphaÃ«l Hertzog wrote: >Every time that
debhelper needs to adjust a dependency it provides a new
>substvar and the maintainer needs to put it in the right field.
I was >thinking that we could avoid the second half if some
specific substvars >was added at the end of every field. >dpkg-
gencontrol could be modified to always append the value of >we
should even support multiple substvars (say >if multiple tools
want to add something at the end of the same field. >This would
even make it possible for debhelper to add dependencies that
>would have been handy for example when several dh_* tools have
stopped >doing their work on the assumption that the triggerized
version of >the postinst snippet was available on the system.
With a break, it could >ensure that the relevant package had
been upgraded... >With such a system, the ${misc:Depends} that
we are currently adding >everywhere would not have been needed.
>it would be useful ? Do you