Bug#697433: New field Package-List in .dsc

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> I just realised that we forgot to document this field.

> How about the following patch.

> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 4dec04c..d2e506e 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2753,6 +2753,7 @@ Package: libc6
>           <item><qref id="f-VCS-fields"><tt>Vcs-Browser</tt>, <tt>Vcs-Git</tt>, et al.</qre
>           <item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommend
>           <item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
> +         <item><qref id="f-Package-List"><tt>Package-List</tt></qref></item>
>           <item><qref id="f-Checksums"><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt>
>               and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
>           <item><qref id="f-Files"><tt>Files</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
> @@ -3812,6 +3813,19 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
>             </taglist>
>           </p>
>         </sect1>
> +
> +       <sect1 id="f-Package-List">
> +         <heading><tt>Package-List</tt></heading>
> +
> +         <p>
> +           Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from
> +           the source package.  The first line of the field value is empty.
> +           Each one of the next lines describe one binary package, by listing
> +           its name, type, section and priority separated by spaces.  There
> +           are two possible package types: binary package (<tt>deb</tt>) or
> +           micro binary package (<tt>udeb</tt>).
> +         </p>
> +       </sect1>
>        </sect>
>  
>        <sect>

> Does anybody know if this field mandatory or optional ?

Seconded, once that question has been resolved.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>