Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:36:35PM +0300, Shachar Or a écrit :
> 
> What I am offering is the idea that package dependencies that are 
> reccomendations or suggestions must be explained.

Hi,

Before I read your mail, I thought that it was not possible, but after
googling a bit, I found out that dpkg supports comments since version
1.10.11:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446712

This is however just general comments, they are not meant to be parsed
for display to the end-user. I will nevertheless start to use them. I
think that it is very valuable in team-maintained packages, where it is
sometimes difficult to know what motivated the actions of another
developper years before.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan