Re: phasing out override files
Richard Braakman wrote:
> I think something much simpler would work: Use a special value "-"
> for sections and priorities that should be taken from the package
> instead of from the override file. Then do regular scans for values
> that can be replaced with "-". (The "-" is already used in the changes
> file format for missing information of this type.)
Ok. Seems like a better plan than my off-the-cuff idea.
> This requires changing dpkg-gencontrol, and doing it with sections
> would take significant work on dinstall because the section is also
> the directory name.
Yeah. If the ftp folks agree this is a worthy idea, I don't mind helping
with that. Although I've never touched dinstall before, and I'm not sure
I want to start. ;-)
I'm mostly interested in seeing if people agree this is a good idea at
this point though, it's not exactly urgent to implement it.
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