Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> How to split up the Packages/Sources files into more granular pieces
> would be nice, but which fields should go into which sets needs
> defining, and which set of sets should be the default. For
> compatability, it could continue to generate Packages/Sources as they
> are and add Packages-Homepage, Packages-dpkg, Packages-user etc files
> for updated apt/dpkg to use, allowing us to avoid waiting a whole
> release cycle to use this stuff.
Looks like this bit is already being worked on:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2009/msg00010.html
> * Move of packages' long descriptions into a separate "translated
> package list", which will facilitate their translation and also
> provide a smaller footprint for embedded systems thanks to smaller
> Packages files.
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bye,
pabs
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