Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Please add something along the following lines to the section 5.7
"User defined fields" to the debian policy manual:
Usually, unknown fields are iggnored by the debian packaging system. To
avoid conflicts of user defined fields with field that may be used by
debian in the future, we suggest to use field names starting with X- (so
you need to put X[BCS]-X-foo into the control file) which are guaranteed
to never conflict with future official fields. That has the added bonus
that dpkg-deb will not issue warnings about user defined fields
at package build time.
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards
Nils Rennebarth, Software Developer
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