Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk> writes: > > Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk> writes: > > > > > How hard would it be to implement this field for official packages? Then, > > > with time dpkg could refuse to install packages without an origin unless > > > some "--force" option is used. > > > > We shouldn't let dpkg refuse to install other packages in Debian > > format! We *are* encouraging people to use Debian as a base for their > > own distribution and then we put something like that in place!? Please > > don't do something restrictive. On the other hand it should be useful > > to mark packages where they come from. > > > I may not have been clear about this, but what I meant is to refuse packages > without "Origin" (which includes all our current packages). That way we > force everybody to use it. This isn't meant to be restrictive but a way to > enforce this policy on people outside debian. Excuse me, I misunderstood you! Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ leutloff@debian.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/
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