Re: dpkg & i18n

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> As for the future, more than likely, all package tools will need to
> abstract from using field "names" and implement a strictly programatic
> parsing of each of the fields. This could be done by specific ordering of
> the fields in their static storage (flat file, db2, etc..). I suspect that
> dpkg wont be able to handle any of this (much less our package handling
> tools) correctly any time soon.

Just FYI, that's similar to how rpm does it (it uses numeric tags for
fields), and I would regard such a change as a step backwards.

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