Re: Guidelines document...

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Guidelines document..."):
> There's a couple of things I'd like to mention (as I'm sitting here
> reading the document from late January):
> 
> 1) It doesn't yet mention the PRE-DEPENDS: field.
> 
> 2) It doesn't mention the SOURCE: field in what looks like its
> intended to be the canonical list of control file field names

I've added brief mentions of these in dpkg 1.1.2.

> 3) Under the discussion of ``Conflicts, Depends, Suggests, Recommends
> and Provides'', in the second paragraph, it says that all a.out
> packages should contain a dependency on the package 'libc'---shouldn't
> this be 'libc4?

I don't know.  libc maintainer ?

> 4) Viewed under xdvi, all of the DESCRIPTION: field examples are
> Obviously double-spaced.  Not, I think, what was intended.

This is a texinfo bug and will be fixed when I have the new texinfo.

Ian.