[Russ Allbery] > Maybe the right thing to do would be to work out a way for package > maintainers to provide input to their own P-a-s entries in some sort > of automated fashion? It does seem like a package maintainer is > generally going to know this sort of thing Could be done, but my understanding is that they explicitly *don't* trust maintainers. In other words, p-a-s is separate from the debian/control Architecture lines for the same reason the ftpmasters' override file is separate from the debian/control Section and Priority lines. Because the buildd admins, and ftpmasters, *want* to maintain this information manually. I could be wrong.
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