Re: Game plan for slink, a suggestion
Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> If there's really enough interest I could be persuaded to do this, but
> it has one problem - no point in adding fields if they aren't supported
> by mainstream dpkg.
>
> What does dpkg do upon encountering fields it does not know? Ignore
> them silently? Joey Hess?
dpkg-dev -b prints warning messages, dpkg -i ignores them silently. It
varies. Dpkg never fails because of user-defined fields, that I know of.
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