Re: Changelog URI in Release and Hashes in .diff/Index

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> writes:
>> > So, I would like to request that the field
>> >>>>>>
>> > Changelogs: http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/CHANGEPATH_changelog
>> > <<<<<
>> > is added to Release files, so that hardcoding can eventually be
>> > stopped.
>> 
>> dak can add them now.  I would suggest to use something instead of
>> "CHANGEPATH" that looks more like it will be substituted.  Maybe
>> "${CHANGEPATH}" or "$CHANGEPATH"?
>
> I haven't used something which looks like a shell variable to avoid
> funky problems with expansions while setting/storing it as well as to
> avoid anybody to believe that it should have been expanded by the
> repository software, but that works either way – pick anything as you
> like and I will adept the libapt code to use it.

Hmm, right. Having them look like shell variables might lead people to
expect both ${FOO} and $FOO work and do the same.  I used @CHANGEPATH@
instead.

I also set Changelogs for the unstable, experimental and testing suites
on ftp-master.

Ansgar