Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Gunnar Wolf 

> ...Although if we make a policy change in this, it will require
> cooperation of the dpkg developers if we don't want to go into 6.1.4
> (which we don't).

No, it won't, it's a policy change on what's allowed in the archive, not
what features dpkg is allowed to implement.

I imagine the language we'd want to use is along the lines of «Packages
must not use dpkg's vendor-specific patch series functionality».

> I am explicitly cc:ing Guillem here. Guillem, please take a look at
> this bug and give us your PoV!

Thanks!

Cheers,
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Tollef Fog Heen
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