Hi, Ian Jackson wrote:
We want the package to _declare_ whether it supports this new target.
Ideally, we'd want all packages to support the new target, and then turn that into policy, otherwise we'll end up supporting both for a very long time.
The proposed -Options field will actually be very useful for any other enhancements we make to the source package format.
I'm not disputing that, but I'm not sure we really want it in this case. Simon