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Re: Fields used in packages



On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM, George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
> I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files
> (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used in
> testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups:
>
> 1) listed in debian policy and accompanied sub-policies (like Python-*).
> 2) handled by dpkg (wanna-build/buildds/dak/other?), but not mentioned in
> policy or sub-policies (like Vcs-*)

At least for Vcs-*, that's documented in devref:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs


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